We owned what we learned back there the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

The day of perfection is not scheduled on earth.

Survival is an ancient dream Life is nothing but an everlasting illusionNothing is RealDon’t believe in illusion, Remember me, I am here …

It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.

envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.

I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.