Intimacy is not purely physical. It's the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

Love makes you free without an asterisk mark.

In search of Magnum opus - perhaps you were divined to be mine.

I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.

People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise.

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.