I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that its more interesting to have an album – or, indeed, an individual song – which has variety rather than homogeneity. – Peter Hammill
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged. – Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal, 1974
