Who were these people, all of them young couples, a few fabulous ones, tall thin-haired blondes with toned men in perfectly pressed jeans -- neither fearing the loss of the other.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.

We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

Always we learn things and then we forget them.

Every living thing deserves our respect... be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful.

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope.

To be a human is to be destroyed.