starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?
Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L. A.
Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind.
When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.
Speaking of [Ronald] Reagan on the faith of the founders, he was particularly fond of George Washington, who he cited nearly 200 times, and almost twice as much as all the presidents since [John F. ]Kennedy combined.