"Never become too good at something you hate, they'll make you do it the rest of your life."

“I made so many recordings with junky mics and crappy mixing consoles, you have to use what your tools are and in some ways that's been inspirational.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com

“Instant gratification takes too long.”

Source : Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

“I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.”

“The code that most prisoners live by is an extension of the masculine roles they were taught growing up, how they were conditioned about what it means to be a man: you've got to be strong, you've got to be tough, you've got to be in charge.”

“Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.”

“Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.”

“God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.”

“Something I tell my students is to read once; then if you still have problems with it, read it a second time. If you still have problems, get drunk and read it a third time... and you might get something out of it.”