You ultimately have to find out who you are inside and develop a set of values that are truly yourself, and then express them.

I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.

Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.

When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

Time control directly influences the quality of play.

Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.

Coldplay was unknown, and we played them over and over and over again, and they were really loyal to us. They went on M2 way after they had broken and become famous, because they remembered us.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

‎"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?

I personally regard all of the houses of the Lord as the work of Jehovah, initiated by him, built by him, designed by him, and dedicated to him and his program.

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.