If the economy grows enough, fast enough, the tech system should be modernized so that the tax revenues rise fast enough also, and we should put more….

A group simply announcing a caliphate, is not enough to establish a caliphate..

Life's all about 'me' anyway.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon..

I am not stroppy at all..

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant..

I follow the rules until I go against them all..

It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go..

You are someone and you have a right to your life..

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you.

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant..

History is at once freedom and necessity..

I'm thrilled to get hired every once in a while..

The great god Pan is dead..

We all become what we pretend to be..

We are not revived because we sing; we sing because we are revived..

Leadership is more doing than dash..

To be is to stand for..

I value my correspondence with writers...I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him - he is someone I really like.….

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to ….

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it..