I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

My heart's made of goldMy soul is pure steelLoved ones shall riseEnemies will kneelI soothe with water, attack with fireFor I am the master of my own empire.

They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

The most important thing to me is to give something back to my parents, because they've done so much for me throughout my life.

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.