Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin
Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal. – Karl Rove
I cant understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still havent really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa – 60 percent of people in – infected with HIV are women. – Annie Lennox
It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldnt remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me. – Andy Partridge