If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.
Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.
If you're going to do an interview about a movie or anything like that, you're vulnerable. You say stupid things. Or if you're applying for a green card you feel very vulnerable and you're likely to spout out something stupid in the middle of it all.
It's my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
We are still a pioneer culture in some ways. A pioneer culture has to put all of its muscle into surviving on the frontier and pushing back the wilderness. So when you start to talk about imagination, inner space, and the structures of the psyche, that becomes scary.
To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.
If you really stop resisting someone or stop judging them or stop being afraid of them or stop imagining they're going to do something negative they haven't done yet, it changes the energetic field, it changes the relationship, and that person - not always, but often - will shift their behavior because of what you've done.
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.