When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

The foolish rush to end their lives.Only the steadfast soul survives.

My luck for this year depends on one word. It's called work!

Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim "Christ is born in Bethlehem!

Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.

There are absolutely no rules about style at all. Not for me.

Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.