Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."

They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.