I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.
A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.
It's sort of cheesy to introduce that to the drums - those dings and dongs and bell sounds. That's definitely one of the reasons people are like 'oh yeah, they sound like Tom Waits, with those trashcan drums. ' But at the same time, it sounds so good! And it introduces this. . . I mean, it's not tuned, but somehow it adds this extra layer of melodic texture.
There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.