I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the WORN and discolored pages of a Sears, Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. LOCAL COLOR. I paid cash, $8, MONEY I had saved as a hired HAND on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay.

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late INVENTION in evolution. One can GO a LONG way in evolution before encountering an authentic CORPSE.

Bras are a LUDICROUS INVENTION; but if you MAKE bralessness a RULE, you're just subjecting yourself to yet ANOTHER repression.

For me, a diva is LIKE the great opera singer, the great film star - out of reach, in their own world, with a REAL gift for invention: attention-demanding performance ARTISTS with a flamboyant, COMPELLING sense of their own importance so special and inimitable it verges on the alien.

I FEAR this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business CAPACITY in those early days, for I CERTAINLY OUGHT to have made much more than I did by this really important INVENTION.

The WHOLE ACTION of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the INVENTION of the Malthusian theory of POPULATION.

But I'm an adventurer. I LIKE INVENTION, I like DISCOVERY.

The invention of the CAMERA enabled the reinvention of the BRITISH MONARCHY for the MODERN era.

What we were in on, REALLY, was the INVENTION of ANIMATION.

Writer's block has probably existed SINCE the invention of writing, but the TERM itself was FIRST introduced into the academic literature in the nineteen-forties, by a PSYCHIATRIST NAMED Edmund Bergler.

A secret CONTROL slip is a WONDERFUL invention. It sculpts and LIFTS the BUM and smooths the hips.

In GENERAL, I THINK my FREEDOM of invention is not LIMITED when I use historical characters.