I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.

There is no business model in the modern media that promotes comity. If we worried too much about criticism, we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.

Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

My heart was still beating, I was still breathing, but was living something more?

They were all gone now, broken or taken by people who had no idea what such items represented. Let them go. She held the past in her heart, with no need of physical items to tie it down.

You don't mess with janitors, first of all, they have like 40 keys, and 1 is to a closet you don't want to be inside of.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People' and they're all true and they're all accurate.

The stuff I'm working on is quite dense. I'm seeing every four bars as a scene in a film.

Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.