Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight

You are not alone. There are Freedom Seekers everywhere.

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.

In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.