Soren Kierkegaard

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.