The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

He said, 'Always. Always.

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

I think there's data, and then there's information that comes from data, and then there's knowledge that comes from information. And then, after knowledge, there is wisdom. I am interested in how to get from data to wisdom.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.