"Personally, I tend to worry about what I save, not what I spend."

“I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.”

“People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.”

“The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.”

Source : "David Sylvian: 'Do gentlemen still take Polaroids? I think they take Viagra now!'". Interview with Richard Vine, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2012.

“I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.”

“Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.”

“We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.”

“The onion is the truffle of the poor.”

“When life hands me lemons I hand them back and pick something else.”