If I should be so blessed as to revisit again my own country, but more especially Manchester, all that I could hope or desire would be presented before in one view.

It appears I am destined for something; I will live.

By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.

I stand astonished at my own moderation

It's strange how quickly the significance of of a certain smell can change, depending on what path it decides to take through the brain. It's strange how close love and fear live to each other.

Life is like our heart, the people are the nerve's and society is the brain

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies.

Even if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea.

Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.