They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Only one who loves can remember so well.

this life has been a landscape of painand still, flowersbloom in it.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.

Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

Second isthe first of the losers.

Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager.

Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer.

I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.

I'm alright. I love you. I love my life. I'm always close to you.