It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain.

I suppose the test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.

With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.

My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.