Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own if other people hadn't helped them. A straightforward capitalist society would've cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.
I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs, to be blunt. They are just really smart people attracted to making strange new sounds.
We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.
How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?