"Finished products are for decadent minds."

-- Isaac Asimov

“I started to play noise on my cello because I felt a deep personal connection to it. I mean, I still love all the beautiful sounds of the cello as much as anybody but it's only when I play certain sounds I know that the cello really presents who I am; not my emotions but who I am as a person.”
“I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.”
“Are all men in disguise except those crying?”

Source : Dannie Abse (1986). “Ask the bloody horse”, Vintage
“I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.”
“I'm an actor and I am looking for roles where I can continue to evolve, and things that are challenging. I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.”
“Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.”
“I think sometimes you get given a good pile of goodwill, and it's whether you use it up in the first six months or spread it out over a career.”
“By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.”

Source : John Woolman (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.156

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