Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

Self knowledge is always bad news.