Mystery is more important than knowledge.

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.

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

It's more important you learn what to make movies about than how to make movies

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.

One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

I'd rather people turn up than not. And of course I'd rather have people be enthusiastic.