Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
From Terry Pratchett
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
The harder I work, the luckier I become.
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.
I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.
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