It was impossible to feel alone in a room full of favorite books. I had the sense that they knew me personally, that they'd read me cover to cover as I'd read them.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

Your liberty will not be freely given to you.You must be bold to liberate yourself.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

I wrote my will across the sky, in stars

Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think.