Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind.

If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.

There is no good or evil here, it all depends on what side you're standing. Nor is it about wrong or right, it's about surviving." Triven

If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.” -Triven

Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on.

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.