My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.

There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

Death is the reward for living

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

I tend to write better when I'm not touring.

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.