there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing of pop music and rock music, I don't think anyone really believes that music is anything more than another commodity.

Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.

I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

Not one word of the following is true