I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

Men were like horses, she mused dreamily. All they needed was breaking in.

They say dragons never truly die. No matter how many times you kill them.

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

I'm a slave for you. Dancing in the dark.

Streams of melting snow.

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

Happiness is often hard-hearted.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.