"What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks."

“Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.103, Rutgers University Press

“there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our Western Democracies. Don't let anyone else have what I've not got, or can't enjoy! - is the secret theory. A very large number of writers in the British and American popular press profess to be preaching democracy when in fact they are only trying to make envy respectable!”

“Before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.”

“I love songwriting ! It's my Number One passion other than performing. Well, actually it's like wearing three different hats: songwriting, recording and performing. They're all completely different and draw on different types of skills. With recording, there are so many different phases of production, and you have to be very careful because you can polish it until it doesn't shine.”

“In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry”

“"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".”

“evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue.”

Source : Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.”