"The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere."

“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.”

Source : "Trump's brilliant choice of McMaster" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2017.

“I really admire songwriters or any kind of writer, painter or artist that says, "I'm going to get up at 8 o'clock in the morning and spend this time to this time creating." I do that sometimes, but the songs I like the best come as gifts from somewhere. It's almost like you didn't do anything, like you can't take credit for it because you sat down and the melody and words came out.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.”

“Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they are mortal and broken, but also that with the recognition of this condition, liberation starts.”

“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”

“I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.”

“Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.”

“Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic positionThe operation in Gaza is not Netanyahu’s strategy in excess; it is Netanyahu’s strategy in its entirety. The liberal Zionist, two-state vision(that) once commanded a mainstream position within Israeli political life has been relegated to a left-wing rump within it.”

Source : "Israel Is Making It Hard To Be Pro-Israel". Article by Jonathan Chait, nymag.com. July 29, 2014.