Source: One Crazy Summer
Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.
Se La, co-written with Greg Phillinganes.
Song lyrics, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986)
The Plan of Delano (1965)
His comment to his wife On his daily prayers he would sings devotional songs out of tune and metre. Quoted in page=104
“The universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to our particular universe.”
In The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 555.
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Telling (2000), Ch. 4, §3 (pp. 90–91)
Context: One of the historians of Darranda said: To learn a belief without belief is to sing a song without the tune.
A yielding, an obedience, a willingness to accept these notes as the right notes, this pattern as the true pattern, is the essential gesture of performance, translation, and understanding. The gesture need not be permanent, a lasting posture of the mind or heart, yet it is not false. It is more than the suspension of disbelief needed to watch a play, yet less than the conversion. It is a position, a posture in the dance.
“A church full of singing, out of tune
Everyone's gone to the moon”
Song: Everyone's gone to the Moon
