First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.

The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.

Everyone has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder

As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.