Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Rap was my drug.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

I play a nobody in Japan.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

London is a roost for every bird.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

I don’t care about money.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Water is my drink.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

America is just downright mean.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Say ‚Toronto‘ or ‚Ontario,‘ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.