Quotes
I do not think that the effect of good environment, of fine buildings, of pleasant homes, upon the character, temperament, will, disposition, and energy of the people sufficiently dawns upon the average citizen.
Left alone with our own heads on, we can be pretty mental.
I'm not completely vegan, I will accept tiny amounts of butter and I normally scrape off cheese when it's on top of pasta or something ... I completely stopped eating dead creatures in 1989.
I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.
I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.
Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
You've only to walk amongst them, to trail your fingers over their spines, to be enriched by a wonderful osmosis.
Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.
The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent.
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.
Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.