"I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore."

“In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.”

“What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”

“My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.”

Source : Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.93, U of Nebraska Press

“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

“Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.”

“Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.”

“The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable”

“My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.”