"Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts."

“The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach with an uncalculating mind, with an attitude of regard...be alert for its openings, for that moment when something sacred reveals itself within the mundane, and you know the land knows you are there.”

“Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.”

“To have to hear a woman's voice, and start to make a choice just based on that, is difficult.”

“I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.”

Source : "Random Rules: Jesse Harris". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 10, 2007.

“Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action”

“I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. She is tall and straight. She is proud. She got a better haircut. And she is remembering the words I put in her head. Remembering as a full-grown woman.”

“I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible.”

Source : "This much I know: Jarvis Cocker". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”