My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

John Enoch Powell

The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart - not something that comes upon the earth or after death.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

Norah Jones

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

David Lynch

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Ani DiFranco

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Earl Warren

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

Carl Sandburg

Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it

Mark Twain

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

Alain de Botton

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Sir Philip Sidney

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson