"Structure builds minds into great Monuments."

“The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.”

Source : "Pulp" by Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2001.

“Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

“I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women.”

“If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.”

“There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.”

“One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.”

Source : Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)

“I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.”

“I really believe that God and religion is two different things.”