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Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?

The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself.

I am not an economist... I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Successes don't teach you much, but mistakes? That's a learning situation.

I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

Life's journey - it unfolds for you as you are ready for it.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

With Moloko, we tried to be the opposite of what was out there at the time. I like to be different. In the mid-Nineties, music was quite dour and serious, and everything was dressed down. So we went the other way. Our first record was about not wanting to do four-to-the-floor dance music.

Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

जिन से मिलना न हुआ उन से बिछड़ कर रोए हम तो आँखों की हर इक हद से गुज़र कर रोए

I speak fluent Kosovan.

My perfect night in would be lots of bad food like biscuits and chocolate, and possibly an ice cold fizzy drink.

When you own a pair of haircutting scissors, you cut your own hair constantly.

I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.

If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?