"You get the most out of what you need the least."

-- Jane Bryant Quinn

“You want me to sneak up on an angel and rip out its pinfeathers, so you can make a fashion statement?”
“His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.”
“Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.”
“If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.”

Source : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.
“Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope”
“It means zero to be against greed.”
“I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.”
“I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.”

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