The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.

The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value

I keep hearing that being a geek is cool now, but I'm not sure the rest of the world has gotten the memo

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day when real life will begin. And so life passes by.

Solitude is the profoundest fact

There is nothing like being on stage.

... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.