Andrew Cook

“Plant considered Robert Johnson the musician “to whom we all owe more or less our very existence.”
― Bob Spitz, Led Zeppelin: The Biography

“How could anyone ever be bored in this world, when there was so much to be interested in, to learn, to contemplate”
― Neil Peart, Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times

“In his late thirties, pushing forty: the shadow line. Time to accept the terms of the unsigned contract, there without the asking; the knowledge that what binds others applies to you, too, that there are no exceptions to the rule: though it was contrary to nature, one had to grow old.”
― Stanisław Lem, More Tales of Pirx the Pilot

“Komphot remembers one night when the sounds were so close to his hut “I thought they were coming to get us. I thought to myself: It is one thing to suffer to live, another thing to suffer only to die. I decided to give it two years. If nothing had changed I would commit suicide.”
― Elizabeth Becker, When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, Revised Edition