Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed?

Abnormal – nonsense. Suggests a norm, which is a tag placed on those who don’t conform to an elite’s view of itself.

Micro: When his mind detached from his body he saw the murderer stab him repeatedly. Later, he told the detective - who retired. He blamed stress.

Jack the Ripper – media myth arising when clever individual murderers concocted a monster so as to avoid suspicion.

War – conflict where people are made to kill to live. Caused by less than 1% of a population – and experienced by the rest.

Too much power is never a good thing. It corrupts even the strongest.

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.

A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.