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I think there's something very peculiar about living in the city and not part of the major metropolis; that actually makes it remarkably easy to disappear. ”
I myself lived in London for 20 years, and I never knew my next-door neighbors. I never knew what they did. I never knew their names. They didn't know what I did for a living, and they didn't know my name. ”
You forget, living outside of a country, that the actions of the government are not the actions of the people. ”
I never wanted us to be an exercise in nostalgia, living in the shadow of other artists. ”
We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction. ”
Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It's something you can hold, pore over the lyrics, and immerse yourself in the art work. ”
Pink Floyd, the most successful progressive rock band of all time, have stood the test of time because the emphasis was always on melody and atmosphere. ”
Even though I knew pretty early that I was going to be a scientist, it wasn't the science that interested me in science fiction; it was the vision of future societies that, for better or worse, would be radically different from our own. ”
If we had the fundamental laws of nature tomorrow, we still wouldn't understand consciousness. We wouldn't even understand turbulence. ”
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility. ”