I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

Nothing's planned. Never say never.

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

I'm completely hooked on polo.

Skepticism precludes one from believing many things, but not from loving many things.

The only one I want, the only one I'll ever want, is you.

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

Mo Nighean donn," he whispered," mo chridhe. My brown lass, my heart." Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me. a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you.

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

Leave it to a man to mess things up

As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.