Up until the Depression recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it is simply necessary to love.

The sole art that suits me is that which rising from unrest tends toward serenity.

Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age it tends to get categorized and labeled and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think if anything the press kind of because of my gender and my age tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic I guess.