"During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted."

“Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!”

“I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.”

Source : Catherine Lampert, Richard Kendall, Euan Uglow (2007). “Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné”, p.38, Yale University Press

“I have a very basic leg. But it has a silicon cover on it. I have a flat foot leg, a high heel leg and then I have a leg which, in the winter, I have to ski in and in the summer I swap it into my roller blades.”

Source : "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 20, 2007.

“I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.”

“Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.”

Source : "The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 3". Book by Donald Knuth, www.wired.com. 1973.

“Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.”

“The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.”

“No man's condition is so base as his; None more accurs'd than he; for man esteems Him hateful, 'cause he seems not what he is; God hates him, 'cause he is not what he seems; What grief is absent, or what mischief can Be added to the hate of God and man?”