My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it. New York... New York..." New York, New York - Fred Ebb/John Kander

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

I also dress up as a sexy fairy.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

I'm not from a lower social level, but I think I relate more to lower levels then to people who've got money.

My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.

We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.

Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.