I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman
My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because theres an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if youve been a difficult teenager. – Robbie Coltrane