"While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs"

“Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”

“We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.”

“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.”

“We would rather be anywhere, as long as we are somewhere. We would rather be anyone, as long as we are someone.”

“It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe.”

“An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.”

Source : "The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould" by Jacob Aron, www.newscientist.com. April 08, 2016.

“I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.”

“I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.”