England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.

Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.

He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.

The art of happiness is to serve all, and all shall serve you.

When Allah decides a matter, it is done.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.

The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.