The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast, ' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

He carries well, to whom it waighes not. [He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]

I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.

We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.