I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

Wherever you go in the history of America there have been Black people making contributions but their contributions have been obscured lost buried.

Be obscure clearly.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare no matter what happens to the world that's not equity it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.