We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it

...an irresistible of why we read and why we love.We are not quite novels.We are not quite short stories.In the end, we are collected works.

Passion stimulates you, love intoxicates you, marriage sobers you, and parenthood tries you.

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

You are what you think.

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker.