And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so that these clever, complex statements form slowly and then bloom in my mind. Beethoven does the same thing with his cadence and...
[Travers gives Ralph a list of people to his handicapped daughter, Jane] Ralph: "Albert Einstein, Van Gogh, Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo" - What is this? P.L. Travers: They all had difficulties. Jane can do anything that anyone else can do, do you understa...
[first lines] Jane Burnham: I need a father who's a role model, not some horny geek-boy who's gonna spray his shorts whenever I bring a girlfriend home from school. What a lame-o. Someone really should just put him out of his misery. Ricky Fitts: Wan...
The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.
To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.
A lot of cats are not that social.
Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.
[first lines] Jane Bennet: Lydia. Kitty.
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.
I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
Age affects how people experience time.
You are human and fallible.
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
Not everyone is equally good-looking.
Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.
