Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties.