The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bedAnd sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.(I think I made you up inside my head.)

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it.

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

The answer to most questions can be given in one or two words, and no one will challenge you to go deeper.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat my meat. Whatever you ate before that you loved like turkey slices they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find.

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.