We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

Always we learn things and then we forget them.

Who were these people, all of them young couples, a few fabulous ones, tall thin-haired blondes with toned men in perfectly pressed jeans -- neither fearing the loss of the other.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

Sometimes it's best to let your opponent think he has control.

Just because something is legal doesn't always make it right.

I love getting to bounce around and explore so much. I love Scandinavia. I love Spain. It's so mystical and romantic, yet it's gritty.

They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

I know that the Bible has been a central influence in [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] lives - but in a very different way. In truth, you inhabit very different Biblical worlds.

The unspoken word never does harm.

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.