Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.
Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
Time takes away the grief of men.
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.
I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.
I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.
People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.