"Something, like nothing, happens anywhere."

-- Philip Larkin

“University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.”
“There is no country that has the best men.”
“I don't like to think about stuff that's boring.”

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.”
“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”

Source : Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama II”, p.345, RosettaBooks
“I feel good about the decisions that I made and I?m happy. You know, I?m really happy.”
“Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.”

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