The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

We ought to remind ourselves daily, repeat it like a litany, that in our being lies concealed the whole gamut of existence... Above all, we should cease postponing the act of becoming what in fact and essence we are.

It's torture to do something you don't like. It's a constant, constant drain.

It?s torture to do something you don?t like. It?s a constant, constant drain.

While Americans grimace at the mention of the Hitler Influence, there is nowhere to run, no where to hide from our Auschwitz and Dachau–-Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.