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"Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."

"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."

"So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience."

"The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint."

"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

"If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived."

"Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together."
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"I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again."


"Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day."


"I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like."


"Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive."


"Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form."


"You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that."


"I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop."


"I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style."
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