Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

On sorrow floats laughter.

Being able to read a book in another language is a source of ego-stroking pride.

What you believe in makes you bold.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.

Every life is precious.

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.