“Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.”

“If you do not have a moral question in your governing process, then you do not have a process that is going to survive.”

“Life is not always deep, mostly it's just random. But it’s different in art. In art you can choose to show some things and hide others. And suddenly there's meaning to find in the chaos.”

“Didn’t I tell you that you would be safe as long as you were with me?”“Yes, but I didn’t believe you when you pushed me off the edge of a building.”

“The Middle East, that seductive region where [Herman] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and revive his diminishing career, had proved an egregious disappointment. "The whole thing is half melancholy, half farcical," he groaned, "like all the rest of the world.”

“Investment tip 101 When stock markets sink, beer sales rise.”

“Always near, but never there...”