To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.
People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.
I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.
It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.
I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.
I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.
Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.
