I think 'Tattoo''s a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.

To be or not to be.

William Shakespeare

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

Charles Dickens

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

Albert Einstein

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Christopher Hitchens

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

Christopher Nolan

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

Ivan Pavlov

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Francis Bacon

An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change . . . . A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.

Joyce Brothers

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Alanis Morissette

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

Jackie Gleason

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Paul Cezanne

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

Nicholas D. Kristof