It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat’s maze poorly.

Like Bancroft, MacIntyre had been a man of power, and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.

In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough.

In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

I guess I'm inspired by other people who are successful.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

Don't live online, live in real time. I'm just astonished how many people live online.

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like.

When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

Real recognize real, I suppose.