"I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it."

“All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.”

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“If you are experiencing confusion, pain, and suffering, it may be that God is working things out for you in his own way. It is most often the sovereign work of our God unfolding a master plan known only to him.”

“If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?”

“That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.”

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“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”

“I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.”

“Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.”

“Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London, again.”