The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.

With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution....This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.

The mirror's light sparks in the eyes, And horrified, my lids drawn tight, I step back to that realm of nightWhere not a single exit lies...(Untitled: "I pass away this life of mine...")

The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake waterA woman's shriek assaults the earWhile above, in the sky, inured to everything, The moon looks on with a mindless leer("The Unknown Lady")

Inside my soul a treasure is buried.The key is mine and only mine.How right you are, you drunken monster!I know: the truth is in the wine.("The Unknown Lady")

How one tragedy affects so many others.

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

I've been saying for years, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time on cyber security.

When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home."

The true artform is being a human being.

For gypsies do not like to stay - They only come to go away.

Everybody in St. Louis, every kid in St. Louis, wanted to be Stan Musial. He was the best.

There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.