You can’t shine if you don’t burn.

I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

I can't write songs unless I am in love.

If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda

There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.

One of the brain's most prominent skills is the ability to ignore anything that becomes too predictable, no matter how important it may be

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

I guess I would say, it's okay to put things off until the very last minute as long as you know you've got them under control.

The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.

Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it.

Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.

All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates.