A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes-sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.