The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

Bob Geldof

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

Liev Schreiber

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

W. H. Auden

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

Evan Parker

Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller, The Maid

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

Rod Stewart

To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?

Marie Kondo

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Emma Goldman

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Margaret Mitchell

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

Henry Rollins

I did not have an opportunity to speak privately with Peter until just as he was leaving, when he handed me one of the Burns song-sheets and (with a most earnest look) told me to read it before I went to bed.The song was 'My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose,' but it was not until was up in my bedchamber that I saw he had written on the inside page: 'My mother would be honoured if you visited her after church tomorrow.

Jennifer Paynter