Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.

But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.

Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time

Good manners are a sign of strength.

THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child.

Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.

Give people time. Give people space. Don’t beg anyone to stay. Let them roam. What’s meant for you will always be yours.

Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely.

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

He who laughs.....lasts.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.