The greatest lie of the greatest evil is that it doesn't exist.

Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on.

The fall of communism had more to do with prayer meetings in Poland than bombs dropped on Cambodia. War is, among other things, impatience.

Hyacinth. Please forgive me.

People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility. (p. 81)

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

The roughest part of that lifestyle is the travel and early mornings.

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

On second thought she hoped she never met a woman that attractive.. If she did, she would be morally obligated to run her over with her car.." Bride

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.