I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

I've been involved in and out of the UN for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!

In life, if you want to be happy, choose to be optimistic.

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.

Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster

Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.