Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.

An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.

I'm the kind of person who becomes silent when I get scared, because I hope Death will not notice me if I am very still and very quiet. It has worked well so far.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

As a British fashion designer, it is an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be creative director of Team GB as the hosting nation of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.

The really good thing about my career is that I never went through a phase where I played characters who had names like "Partygoer," "Waiter," or "Guy #1."

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.