I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

There is no truly global justice.

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

Isolationism is over.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

It was a carefree period and we took to it like genuine lowlife.

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing.

I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

I stand up for the things I believe in.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.

In tough times we all hope for knights in shining armor or the cavalry to show up and effect change.

I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.

I wanted to play baseball!

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously.

I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.

I want an audience that's passionate, that can be engaged.

I don't trust anybody that doesn't do good work. I don't give them any credibility. If they can't write, why should I believe anything they have to say?

Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.