American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.

Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.

The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.

Could I write all, the world would turn to stone.

One day you're gonna ask that to the wrong girl who is really struggling and it's gonna be hurtful to them. And I hate it.

The United Nations greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person

For me, my faith informs my life.

Taboos are always going to be interesting.Our [ with Michael Dumontier] style has its range and there is room for explicitness in violence, but not at the expense of our classy, highbrow image.

Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.

I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.