Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
I love drag, and I love people who gravitate toward it. Because the people who do drag are people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.
I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
I don't take anything for granted. I know there are a million and one dudes who are rapping, wishing they were in my shoes.
I'm like one of those dudes who organically have talent.
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing, but I couldn't play it. I couldn't get it out. I knew what I had to play; it was in my head. I could hear the notes in my head, but I couldn't get them out on the guitar.
It's easier to change the manager than all the players. It's never easy to choose who should be in the dugout.
I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
I think I just had it by osmosis: an appreciation of Duke Ellington before I really even knew who he was.
If you talk with a Southern accent, it's perceived as though you are slow. That's not the case. I've met just as many dumb people who talk without an accent as with.
Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
