If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

I think you create your own hipness.

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

Trends don't mean very much to me. They come, they go, they turn around.

It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

I don't think about how to live my life. I just live it.

The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our mark. What will you choose to do?

Chaos within destiny. It was the definition of our love.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)