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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. ”
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. ”
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. ”
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. ”
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. ”
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. ”
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man. ”
My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience. ”
Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket! ”
I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life. ”