Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Rosamond Lehman

Ideas are the source of all things

Plato

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Martin Luther King, Jr., The Tru

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

Jack Paar

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Thomas Fuller

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

Mae West

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

Ezra Pound

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

Paul Davies

There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were... what was the word... deshabille. It meant untidy, but with bags and bags of style.

Terry Pratchett

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Fridtjof Nansen

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

Jim Woodring