Some Quotes

From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho’s supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be generated beneath the Moon or above the Moon, but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself.

Soyinka’s Death at Dawn, Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith’s Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska’s Some People come to mind immediately. But there are plenty, plenty more that I enjoy.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime.

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.

We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God’s purpose to understand.