Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.
You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.