The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

We are gods with anuses.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.

Jesus never spoke of truth in abstraction, as something that stands alone. Jesus always spoke of truth in relation to God being revealed through himself.

I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.

I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.