There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.