
“Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.”
Source: The Golden Lily
“Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.”
"Love in a Time of War" (31 March 2003)
2000s
Context: It is hard to ignore the prima facie dumbness that got us bogged down in this nasty war in the first place. This is not going to be like Daddy's War, old sport. He actually won, and he still got run out of the White House nine months later... The whole thing sucks. It was wrong from the start, and it is getting wronger by the hour.
“He used to say that "no book was so bad but that some good might be got out of it."”
Dicere etiam solebat nullum esse librum tam malum ut non aliqua parte prodesset..
Letter 5, 10, referring to Pliny the Elder.
Letters, Book III
60 Minutes interview (2006)
Walls (Circus)
Lyrics, Songs and Music from "She's the One" (1996)
“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
"Fire and Rain"
Song lyrics, Sweet Baby James (1970)
BBC News online http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6075930.stm
Remarks while touring the Forensic Science Service, concerning the police DNA database, 23 October 2006.
2000s
The 59th Street Bridge Song
Song lyrics, Parsley (1966)
Rumour Has It, written by Adele and Ryan Tedder
Song lyrics, 21 (2011)