I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Norman Mailer

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

Percy Wynham Lewis

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Mark Twain

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

Larry Niven

Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.

Marian Burros

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

Troy Polamalu

The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.

Albert Goldman

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

A. A. Milne

Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

Haldan Keffer Hartline

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Samuel Johnson