"It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return."

"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."

"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice."

"Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache."

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you."

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."

"Indecision may or may not be my problem."

"If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks."

"Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete."

"In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time."

"network: anything reticulated or decussated, with interstices between the intersections"