I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'
“The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.”
“I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.”