"Continual learning is the key to continual living."

“I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.”

“If you do a character, always make the character with a big question mark. Even if the character is very enigmatic and all over the place, make him always with a question mark, because if you turn a question mark upside down, like they do in South America in Spanish, then it becomes a hook.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.”

Source : "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

“Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.”

Source : "I Was Finally Able". Talking Points Memo, talkingpointsmemo.com. January 17, 2006.

“Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you.”

Source : Song: Paradise by the Dashboard Light

“On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years.”

“The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.”

“In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.”