The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it.

Most of us will do anything to avoid facing ourselves

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.

In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.

You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results.

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.