"For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader."

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

“I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.”

“It's been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can't believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything.”

“People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.”

“I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.”

Source : "Quitting the Paint Factory". Harper’s Magazine, November 2004.

“In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.”

“I've never deprived myself of anything. I've always thought if you need to lose weight, carry on eating what you like, just eat less. I don't agree with doing without pasta or bread, it's too harsh.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk