"For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos."

“All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.”

“There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”

“One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.”

“The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2014). “Loitering with Intent”, p.42, New Directions Publishing

“Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.”

“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”

“I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.”