Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies to the territory. So - noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time - and the lyric says I am the right guy for t...
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the ...
Familiarity is like the sea that kills the fisherman.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.
There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places.
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and...
...if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...
...cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters...
...you can't be intimate unless you're sensitive...
...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...
...true love is my religion...
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.
...true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...
...The heart mourns people and places and returns to them in dreams...
...love is suffering - that's the happy ending...
I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell ...
If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There'...
