In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.
To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
When you love someone, the best you can offer is your presence.
I have always been a fan of reality by majority vote.
Inspiration hits me at the most annoying times. Like when I am on my bicycle going back home from the studio at 3 a. m. . I've many crackly recordings into my mobile phone practically inaudible from the wind rushing into the handset!
But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to make himself spiritually or rationally destitute or retarded when this corrupts the whole quality of the culture that we all together need and depend on? If anyone wants a cloistered and closed-minded life, an anti-aristic life, let him either go off and live among the wolves-or else join the community of like-minded idiots that (alas) compose and define the basic terms of modern society.