Gentlemanly famous quotes

I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world,

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or the ill luck of the number 13.

Halloween is fun, but it wasnt always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.