"I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe."

“You never know what's coming for you.”

Source : "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". www.imdb.com. 2008.

“For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated.. ..I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that (his trip to India around 1975, fh) I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.”

“I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.”

Source : John McPhee (1982). “Basin and Range”, p.25, Macmillan

“They say that a few minutes each day of petting your dog can raise your serotonin levels.”

“If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.”

“Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.”

“Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)”

“What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.”