January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, A frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow.

We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.

At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

Cycling, like masturbation, is fun and easy to do - sometimes all day long.

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing.

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

I like older boys, but they think, 'She's underage.' I'd love to have somebody in mind when I sing.

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.