In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.
My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.
I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.
I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.
I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
In the words of the late Francis Crick. . . You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Poetry had in the hands of various people become a place for inconvenient knowledge insofar as it was a place for knowledge at all. But it was a place where you could talk about other kinds of experience than the official version.
If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if not a heretic, at least temerarious, a giver of scandal to the whole Church, an insulter of the saints, a favourer of those heretics who deny the Church's authority in canonizing saints, savouring of heresy by giving unbelievers an occasion to mock the faithful, the assertor of an erroneous opinion and liable to very grave penalties.