To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
My wife and I love each other very much.
I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.
Never underestimate the power of Abby Joseph Cohen.
I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.
The human worker will go the way of the horse.
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Thank God for imminent doomsday.
Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing.
Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense?
God abhors a naked singularity.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I find that all my best ideas come to me in my sleep.
