"What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent."

“This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.”

“No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.”

Source : "The secret scandal of Britain's caste system" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2011.

“I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.”

“I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.”

“That is all the perspective you need!”

“There are a lot of producers and people in the music industry who take credit for the work of others when it's not actually their work. Especially big producers - they have a song that's written by one guy with a produced mix by someone else and then it's sung by someone else.”

Source : "Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Disclosure Break Down Every Song on Their New LP". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. September 1, 2015.

“Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)”

“No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.”

Source : Quoted in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 26 May 1921