Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.

It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.

It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

You're either down or you're up.

We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience