Ill be sitting in your mirror. — Kate Bush

"Do you know what I really need? I need love love love love love, yeah!"

"I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that Im some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world. Yknow, Im a very strong person and I think thats why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, She had a nervous breakdown or Shes not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature."

"There were so many times I thought, "Ill have the album finished this year, definitely, well get it out this year." Then there were a couple of years where I thought, "Im never gonna do this." If I could make albums quicker, Id be on a roll wouldnt I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I dont know why. Time... evaporates."

"For the last 12 years, Ive felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. Its so a part of who I am. Its so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. Friends of mine in the business dont know how dishwashers work. For me, thats frightening. I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being. Even more so now where youve got this sort of truly silly preoccupation with celebrities. Just because somebodys been in an ad on TV, so what? Who gives a toss?"

"Touch me, hold me. How my open arms ache! Try to fall for me."

"Ooh, James, are you selling your soul to a cold gun?"

"As long as you keep getting born, it’s okay to die sometimes."

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that theres free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

"History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles. When you go to Mexico City through space, you find it a sort of cross between modern Madrid and modern Chicago, with additions of its own; but if you go to Mexico City through history, back only 500 years, you will find it as distant as though it were on another planet: inhabited by cultivated barbarians, sensitive and cruel, highly organized and still in the Copper Age, a collection of startling, of unbelievable contrasts."

"As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually ‘thinking’ it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics—the model of all neo-positivistic thinking—lies in just this ‘intellectual economy.’ Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. … Reason … becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced."

"Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was still scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!"

"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all. (23)"