The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.

When I am old, I shall wear purple.

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.

I can't stand purple. It doesn't suit me.

It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself

It sounded so proper to lie for the sake of a beloved.

Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.

He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world.

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

Why the hell wouldn't you want to be one of the fabulous people, the life enhancers, who look interesting and smell luscious and who dare to be gorgeously more fascinating than their neighbors?