[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Death is more uni­ver­sal than life everyone dies but not every­one lives.

The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music.

For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

Sometimes when we don't know the answer, it's time to simply be with the question.

Piper, you’re the strongest, most powerful beauty queen I’ve ever met. You can trust yourself. For what it’s worth, you can trust me too.

Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

so full of shapes is fancy