Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

God’s greatness is beyond human understanding.

When someone is attacking you, they are coming to you for advice.

We don't care about you.. we care who is behind you... so the idea is you to be the victim and we to catch the killer...

Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

I don't do lullabyes.

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But, they might succeed more than they ever dreamed, too.

Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.