I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.
There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
Time hurries by, we're here and gone.
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.
I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand.
I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.