"The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated by rote; but profound ideas must be recreated by will and imagination."

“I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.”

Source : "Making Art (and History) Personal" By Bob Duggan, bigthink.com.

“In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.”

“I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare.”

Source : "Scratches in the Temple Wall - An Interview with Travis Nichols". Interview with Paul Killebrew, logger.believermag.com. July 29, 2013.

“She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing.”

“I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage.”

Source : "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

“I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.”

“Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.62

“To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.”