Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la.

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.

You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

('Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. 'Kashmir' is.

There's still time to change the road you're on...

It is essential that we aggressively pursue all criminal offenders, especially those who commit these heinous crimes against women - and seek the maximum penalties under the law.

A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.

There is no god higher than truth.

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create.

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

We are an episode between two oblivions.