It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.
My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.
I once fell in love with a crab on the beach. It was called crab.
Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared!
I think my music is a reflection of what I think life is. Which is beautiful and sad, you know. I'm a bit of a sad-sack, in a way. I try not to be a mope. But life is hard, you know, and life is weird. Not to get too depressing. But it's also beautiful and gorgeous, and I'm glad I'm here.
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it.
In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition - but even more terrible to be frozen into it.
We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.