"Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst."

“I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.”

“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much,”

Source : "Fernando Botero: Colombian Artist Turns 80 And Has No Plans To Retire" by Laura Steiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2012.

“I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.”

“The Tower. He would come to the Dark Tower and there he would sing their names; there he would sing their names; there he would sing all their names. The sun stained the east a dusky rose, and at last Roland, no longer the last gunslinger but one of the last three, slept and dreamed his angry dreams through which there ran only that one soothing blue thread: There I will sing all their names!”

“The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.”

“Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our night sky. And just like the signals that we send and receive here on Earth, we can convert these transmissions into sound using simple analog techniques.”

“No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.”

Source : Song: For A Dancer, Album: Late for the Sky, 1974