To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.

Personal destiny is discovered through teachings

You've got to take the initiative and play your game ... confidence makes the difference.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

I'm very prescriptive about who I work with.

A fault is sooner found than mended.