Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.

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.

If you really want to be an effective time manager, you will have to learn to say no to other people and do so frequently.

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that's in the back of my mind a bit.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

Jobs are hard to come by, so players are extremely motivated to do whatever it takes to keep their job.

Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

A truly English protest march would see us all chanting: 'What do we want? GRADUAL CHANGE! When do we want it? IN DUE COURSE!

It’s hard to see the whole picture when you are in the frame.