Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world. . . It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. There was no gap during which the symbols were unraveled.
She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall. " Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said.
I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.