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

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.

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.

It's more important you learn what to make movies about than how to make movies

Influence is when you don't talk and yet your words fill the room when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere.

Blurred is the picture, To not know what's next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear is...A story of our fate!

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

Not only was it impossible to truly belong in America, but he didn't fit in here anymore either. He was a dweller of two lands, accepted by none.

Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.

I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.

We're the same! Even Sonya says we are. We've always been the same, and we're both acting the same stupid way now! We hold ourselves to higher standards than everyone else.