"The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement."

“I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage.”

“There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.”

“I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.”

“There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't move. One could say that man sneaks through the crack where paradox exists.”

Source : Itzhak Bentov (2000). “A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: A Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation”, p.78, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

“I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.”

“If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him.”

“Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.”

“A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.”