David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. Cmon – Van Halen doing Dancing in the Streets? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone elses music. – Eddie Van Halen

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog. – Guillermo Cabrera Infante

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. – Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards