The one who asks questions does not lose his way.

I hate the way my mother thinks.

the best ideas flow at night

She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.

["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling.

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.