Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, its only you. To an extent, youre all alone.

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

Don't be angry, Finnula had said, be smart.

The other thing I've been discussing with friends is: when you're born do you start at a zero, or five?

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.

You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.

That the world is, is the mystical.

I think that the world is in a very serious decline - very, very serious.

I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.

Character is what you do when no one is watching.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

All musicians are potential band leaders.