... and it broke my heart in so many pieces I wondered if it would ever be whole again.

Maybe he thought I would run then. Maybe he thought I would be done. But I had been hurt before. I think he underestimated my ability to pick myself up and keep going. Done? Far from it.

Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

Just because people starve in a book, doesn't mean that we will starve in the future.