"I was trying to play as real possible - I wanted everything to be real."

“The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.”

“We went to South America on a trip and all I had was a Robert Johnson album. So that's a definite influence on the album. My bandmates John [Stanier, drummer] and Henry [Bogdan, bassist] were interested in expanding their roles as writers, so that had a positive impact on the record.”

“All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.”

Source : James Hopwood Jeans (1944). “The Mysterious Universe”, p.114, CUP Archive

“I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

“Pain or damage don't end the world...”

Source : "Fictional character: Al Swearengen". "Deadwood" TV series, Season 2, Episode 7: "E.B. Was Left Out", www.imdb.com. April 17, 2005.

“Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.”

“You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!”