I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

David Attenborough

If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make... So-- as I recall, the official philosophical answer is that free will doesn't exist. Only the illusion of free will, because the causes of hour behavior are so complex that we can't trace them back. If you've got one line of dominoes knocking each other down, one by one, then you can always say, look, this domino fell because that one pushed it. But when you have an infinite number of dominoes that can be traced back in an infinite number of directions, you can never find where the causal chain begins. So you think, That domino fell because it wanted to... Even if there is no such thing as free will, we have to treat each other as if there were free will in order to live together in society.

Orson Scott Card

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Albert Camus, La Chute, 1956

I don't exist when you don't see me.

Sisters Of Mercy

Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by their own failures and their own successes.

Lawson Purdy

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

Terry Pratchett

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope

Oscar Wilde

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.

Katy Perry

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

Louis L. Mann

When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas of a proper environment and a rewarding life. Doing this, it disrupted the delicate patterns of adaptation and created problems that had not existed before.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

Shirley MacLaine

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

Tim Vine