"Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction."

“It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves.”

“Of course, I didn't become an architect, but later on in Iran, I had a lot of contact and discussions with architects because Iran was developing, and I felt we shouldn't destroy the past and copy completely the West, which is the problem in developing countries.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.”

“Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?”

Source : Keith Waterhouse (1992). “Jeffrey Bernard is unwell ; Mr and Mrs Nobody ; and, Bookends”

“Everyone in my family is a nurse except me.”

Source : "5 minutes to a prettier, healthier you: surfer and supermodel Marisa Miller shares..." by Claire Connors, Shape magazine, Summer 2009.

“My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces - trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work.”

“But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.”

“I picked up a hitch hiker. You've got to when you hit them.”