I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history someone's statement and ideas of life.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history since its statements are rather of the nature of universals whereas those of history are singulars.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

I must analyze from what I do now what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

To get nostalgic about other people's music or even about your own makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

The day I made that statement about the inventing the internet I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

Before I refuse to take your questions I have an opening statement.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment but of boredom.

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band I will personally or with my fans' help greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

I think that's become passe but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it then that's a noble project.

Well my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

Nothing is absolute with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.