Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.

The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of reality, and have the least damaging leaks possible.

I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

There's no way that you're going to please all of America, or all of the fans.

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.

Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

Have a day off, which is very rare in our line of work, but that's something we like to do. Like I said, it's a nice way to take your mind off the game and just go out and relax and have fun.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.