Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind.
We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
Once upon a time when there was no time.
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is". . . and so we find that we have adapted a religion strikingly similar to many traditional faiths. Change "mathematics" to "God" and little else might seem to change. The problem of human contact with some spiritual realm, of timelessness, of our inability to capture all with language and symbol-all have their counterparts in the quest for the nature of Platonic mathematics.
What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.
Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.
As far as all players [being unfairly connected], people have their own opinions, and they're usually from the outside looking in. I don't listen to someone who is on the outside of what we're dealing with every day on the inside.
I never really wondered about getting from London to Lahaul. It all seemed such a natural progression. In London I felt I was in the wrong place and wanted to leave. I'd thought about going to Australia or New Zealand. It's nothing against England, but I knew I wasn't meant to be there.
I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it's really fun filming.
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.