When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the...
Poem: the stranger from my heart.
I rang up Jay Kay, who's got one, and said: "Can we borrow yours?" and he said, "Yeah, if I can borrow your daughter, because it amounts to the same thing.
Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and...
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them.
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Know that holiness too is a part of love and you are a saint of my destiny, a religion of my life, a belief of the forgotten being inside me, the stranger that I am, headed for nowhere, knowing...
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we...
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.
In an organic system you don't waste anything. We need to educate the consumer to accept a tiny blemish on an orange.