There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

Life goes on and off

Christians have burned each other quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Since we're talking about open worlds, let's state upfront that we don't plan to have an open world in the same way other companies have been doing in recent years.

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.

I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner.

God alone is real, and all else is illusion.

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.