This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.

What a delightful thing this perspective is!

The 'thin blue line' is nothing more than the no snitching policy found in any other criminal gang.

the rain in this room is low and thickand undressing my heart through the air. – intimacy

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

I hate to try to be that person in my own skin, in my own way, in my own head, not through exercises or anything else, just by, I guess, belief, concentration.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

There is no such thing as inanimate matter...there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

Stephon Marbury is the bomb. He is going to be so good.

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?