"I remember a discussion with a panel of experts, I asked a question to one of the moderators: "Why is it so difficult for a foreign DJ to play in a club in London?" And you know what the guy said? "Get better than the English.""

“It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.”

“Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.”

Source : "The Dragon's Egg" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. December 5, 2011.

“You can either be a con or a man—you can’t be both.”

“The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...”

“I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.”

“I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.”

“The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.”

“Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow.”

Source : Virginia C. Andrews (1980). “Petals on the wind”, Pocket