When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.
One cannot have a right to life without the right to defend it with deadly force.
Trust is a two way street. If your government does not trust you, how can you trust your government?
Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.
When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years of inhumanity, intolerance, and uncleanliness lie in the foul-smelling alleys. . . The amiable dreamer of Nazareth has only contributed to increasing the hatred. . . What superstition and fanaticism on every side!
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.