It's the time to run away an' hide under the bed, an' hope the world's still in one piece when you come out again.

Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.

They're looking for guys like us, he says, young and hungry, not done yet. I say I'm not hungry, Rick, all I am is angry. He says that'll do just fine.

Sometimes you will let go meet others, travel, experience beautiful things, but there's always someone you feel is home.

If I talk about her like she’s a beingIt’s because talking about her I need to use the language of menWhich gives personality to things, And imposes a name on things.

I am a follower of Jesus and a student of the Buddha.

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.