The world we all share is the same in important respects. But in some deep ways, the lived world and its meanings are radically different.

The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're not bothered by these.

Keep your mind on the pure thoughts .

If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.

I am here

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The natural geopolitical arrangement is for Europe to be part of Eurasia, especially for Germany to develop trade and investment relationships with Russia.

I try to keep a pretty one-tracked mind.