Everything she does comes from within, from some dark impulse. I guess that’s what makes her so thrilling to watch. So dangerous. Even perfect at times. But also so damned destructive.

Because when you love someone very much, it's difficult to learn to share her with someone else.

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.

There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant wall of weed in their apartment.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.

All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's why I'm a strong proponent of general education -- because I saw how it opened my eyes.

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.