“One day we wake up to be thankful about basic things.”

Faces can lie. Backsides can’t.

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

Art is a way of survival.

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being.

Smile to the future and it will smile back to you.

There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.

Life with another person is always difficult.

What a beautiful island we live on! The sky has a permanent haze.

In your head, a sunset can go on for days.

Impossibilities will start to happen for all of us, like magic.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

The summer clouds: reminded me of the summers of 1940s when the world was naive.

The wind is bringing the cloud to swim.

I’m not going to doubt my life.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

The morning beam is telling me that it’s action time!

How we ended up there and how we got to where we are today, without having some basic.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.

School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.

That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.

I’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.

Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.

At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.