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“I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.”

“I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.”

Source : "O Magazine", May 2004.

“Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.”

“It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.”

“So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.”

“This is a tragedy for the players. Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back.”

“If you didn't know what you were trying to do, [Robert von Neumann] wouldn't say a word. He would just turn and walk away. So you very quickly learned to think that you'd better be attempting to do something in that painting class.”

“Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.”