Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.

Whatever the goal, small, daily investments can bring big results.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.