I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me.

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

(Looking at their son on ultrasound.) He looks like an angel. (Cassandra) I don’t know. I think he looks like a frog or something. (Wulf)

You always want what you can’t have.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.