The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.

Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.