A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.' - Bread & Wine (day 5)

As a general rule the one who is not easily accessible is more valuable.

The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.

I started watching The Stooges religiously and obsessively when I was probably about four or five years old till around the age of 18.

Knowing when someone's the real deal or not, but still with putting your guard up and self-protecting, you've got to stay open. It comes back to balance.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago.

These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.