Thomas Love Peacock

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, 'I'm worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.'

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.