The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

No one is exempt and everyone's pain has a different smell. At night, when all the colours die, they hide in pairsand read about themselves—in colour, with their eyelids shut.

In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, working his hand in his armpit to produce a rhytmic farting.

He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.Serried. Then just as suddenly empty when his sound-proof right hand closed off the notes.

Quid quo pro - you cant get something from nothing .

The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.

No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.

Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations?

I shouldn't have been looking at lingerie. It naturally made me think about sexy things. Like kissing. Like Patch.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.

Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain.