In Paris, everything was fixable for the right price.

Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

I've gotta believe in what my heart tells in me, even if it's a fake thing.

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

Money is a living thing.

The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.

No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.