Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious.

Much of life for many people, even in the heart of the First World, still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your shopping for a bus that never comes.

Singers provide all the proof that we have souls.

cadavers' intestines hanging like a parade streamers off the sides of tables, skulls bobbing in boiling pots, organs strewn on the floor being eaten by dogs.....

What we make is more important than what we are particularly if making is our profession.

I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

Eye for eye and the world will go blind.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

What I'm doing on stage now is just the tip of the iceberg.

The elegance of the Italian South is a very strong elegance and it is one that I bring. It is a sexy elegance - or at least, let's say less chaste.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.