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“I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.”
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“The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.”
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“I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.”
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“Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)”
Source : 'Journal intime' 11 February 1804, in 'Revue Internationale' 10 January 1887 p. 96 (describing a conversation with Crabb Robinson about the latter's work on Kant's aesthetics).
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“It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.”
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“On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.”
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“Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.”
Source : Hal Duncan (2014). “Scruffians!: Stories of Better Sodomites”, p.102, Lethe Press
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“My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.”
Source : Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.63, Simon and Schuster
