For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein's E=MC squared

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

What you risk reveals what you value.