Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.

Splendor was the decree of the day.

Nothing limits you like not knowing your limitations.

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

I no more believe in the God of the Jews than I believe in any God.