When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Gold is the corpse of value...

I was only able to move forward once I let go of my fear of leaving him behind.

My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.

They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell.

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]

A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

Oh, you a E head, oh, you a weed head I got a big gun, bigger than Maxi Priest dread

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.