"I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off."

“We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?”

“If you care about shorebirds and the habitats they rely on, you can’t do better than supporting Manomet’s Shorebird Recovery Project. It connects, nurtures, prods, and fertilizes, at a global scale.”

“The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?”

Source : "Chen Guangcheng says he fears reprisals against his family" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.

“You can't regret what you can't remember.”

“If I can't understand something, then it's probably nonsense.”

“People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.”

Source : "A Heart So White" by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, New Directions, (p. 121), 2002.

“True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.”

“A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.”