Minimalism is about creating space to live simply and meaningfully

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.

I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.

Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in strike in Toledo in a factory. And Trotsky was very impressed with that.

The way that I like to fight is I like to paint myself into a corner and so the only way is for me to win.