Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you have tried to say, or tried to do, or everything you are.

impossible situations can arise on other planets too. We don’t need to think that we’re the only ones who struggle and fight.

Even the best-laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

Take pictures of what you fear.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.