Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.
I don't lie; I improve on my life.
Death is the beginning of something.
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.
I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
Idealism is the highest form of reason.
This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.