Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it's a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

I was raised as an Orthodox Jew in a major neighborhood specializing in that, in Brooklyn. And somewhere when I was about 14, something changed. And that change probably involved updating every molecule in my body, in that I sort of realized: this is nonsense, there's no God, there's no free will, there is no purpose.

My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.