"The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known."

-- David Remnick

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“There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.”

Source : "What Comes Naturally". www.newyorker.com. November 25, 2002.
“Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.”
“I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.”
“When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.”
“Well, growing up in LA, things are kind of thrust in front of you. You're almost forced to grow up pretty fast, with experiences and stuff. Going to that school there were a lot of rich girls, a lot of partying, a lot of wild things. You're put in this environment where you're forced to wear a uniform. It was all girls, so you rebel naturally, I think. I don't know, I just kind of got inspiration from every day living and going to school.”
“What kind of authority can there be for an 'Apostle' who, unlike the other Apostles, had never been prepared for the Apostolic office in Jesus' own school but had only later dared to claim the Apostolic office on the basis of his own authority? The only question comes to be how the apostle Paul appears in his Epistles to be so indifferent to the historical facts of the life of Jesus....He bears himself but little like a disciple who has received the doctrines and the principles which he preaches from the Master whose name he bears.”
“Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.”
“The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.”

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