Figuring out the secret of the universe is like trying to read a brand after the steer's been made into hamburger." ~Will Durham from Crossroads, A Music Novel
The universe is a unity. Every material thing is in all things. All things come from all, and all is in all things.
Irreverence towards women means denouncing your own existence. Respecting women is a way of expressing gratitude towards the universal source of creativity.
The value of universal literacy is of course questionable in a society that practices the strictest form of censorship.
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.
Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.
My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.
I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.
