I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.
I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.
If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.
Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.