It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is likely to vary largely according to what we do.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world.

Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it

None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

Few scientists would treat their cars as badly as they treat their conceptual schemes.

Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, and that what may have made you happy then, may not be the same thing that will make you happy now.

There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!

I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I'm afraid of no one.

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

For me, the music is immaterial: It is sounds and visions.

I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.

I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.