Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career. A quiet mind cureth all. Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes. There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job. As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate. Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream. Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day. Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them. No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves. When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go. Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power. Written reports stifle creativity. I think childhood is to everyone a lost land. Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful? It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum. I have a little name. That's why people can remember it. I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.