"It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility."

-- G. H. Hardy

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“I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.”
“Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.”
“If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!”

Source : The Billboard Magazine Interview, www.billboard.com. March 26, 2005.
“Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?”
“Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols-and earth represents reality, and reality represents frustrations, chance illnesses, death, murder, and all kinds of other tragedies. Lovers are meant to look up at the sky, for up there no beautiful illusions can be trampled upon.”
“Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it”
“As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the ***** of sentiment never let up.”
“A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one canâ€™t see--thatâ€™s my idea of happiness.”

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