My only idol is God, and I kick myself when I don't pray regularly enough.
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.
I have no interest in being known as a celebrity; 'celebrity' is a pretty disgusting word. It's part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don't want to participate in that.
Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
The 'Iliad' covered only two months of the great ten-year war with Troy. At least six other epic poems preceded or continued the events in the 'Iliad', but they survive only as fragments.
The 1986 act didn't turn illegal immigrants into citizens on the spot. It granted temporary resident status only to those who could prove they had resided continuously in America for five years. After 18 months, their status could be upgraded to permanent residency, and only after another five years could they become U.S. citizens.
For some of Britain's most powerful people, hunting and shooting are primordial rights, and any challenge to them is treated as illegitimate. They assert ownership not only of the land but also of the social relationships surrounding it.
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
God is only a great imaginative experience.
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
