I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.
Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.
Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.
I'm not rebellious, but I am very strong-willed. I know what I believe in, and I know what I think is right.
I regret the times I've been mean to people. . . It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore.
I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.
Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.