"I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry."

“Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to repeat those motions on a bumpy race course, at 40 strokes a minute, with his heart rate zooming, and an opponent charging up his stern.”

“When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.”

“Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.”

“What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or ***** think they know it all.”

Source : Lisa Gardner (2003). “The Survivors Club: A Thriller”, p.160, Bantam

“Take care of your life force and always keep it streaming. Always be active and creative, and never ever stop dreaming.”

“I went from people just thinking I was, like, a baby to people thinking I’m this, like, sex freak that really just pops molly and does lines all day. It’s like, 'Has anyone ever heard of rock 'n' roll?' There’s a sex scene in pretty much every single movie, and they go, 'Well, that’s a character.' Well, that’s a character. I don’t really dress as a teddy bear and, like, twerk on Robin Thicke, you know?”

“If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.”

Source : "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Benjamin Walker on Dancing Ballet and His Repo-Man Days". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. January 21, 2013.

“Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is dark? Whence is it that the linnet is green? The ebullition of the sea, How is it not seen?”