Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

I'm not ashamed to say I fear something. Besides me having a fear to fly, I also don't want to scare other people. When I'm on a plane, I don't want to freak out everyone else, too.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

I kind of stopped buying vinyl because I'm always on the road and you can never listen to it.

I'm really good at solitaire and I can turn my arms in full circles.

Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.