"All I am, I owe to my mother."

-- George Washington

“There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.”
“To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
“For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.”

Source : "19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture", Sotheby's (Firm), p. 123, 1994.
“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.”
“I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents; I used to believe in every kind of magic. I began it as an investigation. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
“I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.”
“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!”
“I started writing songs when I was eight.”

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