
Nothing’s Sacred (2005)
Dieses Buch widme ich dem Andenken meines Freundes Richard Flisges, der am 19. Juli 1923 in einem Bergwerk bei Schliersee als tapferer Soldat der Arbeit in den schweren Tod ging.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Nothing’s Sacred (2005)
“Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?”
Come, send round the Wine.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth (2010), Dedication
“My friend Richard Feynman said, "I don't know." I heard him say it several times.”
2010s, I don't know, so I'm an atheist libertarian (2011)
Context: My friend Richard Feynman said, "I don't know." I heard him say it several times. He said it just like Harold, the mentally handicapped dishwasher I worked with when I was a young man making minimum wage at Famous Bill's Restaurant in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
"I don't know" is not an apology. There's no shame. It's a simple statement of fact. When Richard Feynman didn't know, he often worked harder than anyone else to find out, but while he didn't know, he said, "I don't know."
I like to think I fit in somewhere between my friends Harold and Richard. I don't know. I try to remember to say "I don't know" just the way they both did, as a simple statement of fact. It doesn't always work, but I try.
From an interview http://rimbaud.org.uk/q-lucie-smith.html
Dedication 'You and I' Macmillan, New York October 1914
Other Quotes
(About a track on his solo album) http://www.malibumag.com/onlinemagazine/junejuly05/tommylee.htm.