concentrate less on people and much on purpose. People can put your purpose in disarray

If you are not careful you will end up living the illusions that others have created for you.

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Don't say 'No,' say 'Gilbert,' ladies and gentlemen.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.

Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.