Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.