"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it."

Willard Van Orman Quine, American Philosopher

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"The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name."

"If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?"

"But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose."

"The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday."

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"My first album is playful."

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."

"So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there."

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"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."

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