Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.
I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.
I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy.
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.
I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
They drink a lotta beer, do a lotta riding around; I drink a lotta beer, do a lotta riding around.
As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.
And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.
Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.