"Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere"

“The UK has a super strong music culture. I could definitely see myself living there if it made sense.”

“There has got to be a point that exists somewhere, when a rational person just has to shake his head and say: 'You know what? Maybe all the crack-pots are right!'”

“When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.”

“Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.”

Source : Clifton Fadiman (1988). “The lifetime reading plan”, HarperCollins Publishers

“I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent.”

“I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead . . .”

Source : Melvin Helitzer (1992). “Comedy Writing Secrets”, Writers Digest Books

“All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.”

“Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.”