I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.

Emerson Fittipaldi

Civility is but a desire to receive civility, and to be esteemed polite.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a man be safe, if it be not in his house?

Sir Edward Coke

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

Plautus

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

Richard Brautigan

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Chantal Kreviazuk

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

J. J. Abrams

Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog. I know just one thing, and I repeat it over and over again. I try to approach it from different angles to make it look different, but it's the same thing.

Colin Wilson

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

John Steinbeck

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Jack Welch

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

Richard M. Nixon

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Stanislaw Lec