Source: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort
“Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?”
"Leap In and Try Things: Interview with Brian Kernighan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110701151454/http://www.harmonyatwork.in/blog/2009/10/leap-in-and-try-things-brian-kernighan/ from Harmony at Work blog http://www.harmonyatwork.in/blog/.
“Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.”
“I will grant you three wishes, but do not ask for immortality without asking for eternal youth.”
Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 9, “Otherspace” Section 5 (p. 138)
Source: Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
On his music for Le martyre de St. Sébastien (1911), in a 1911 interview, as quoted in Dancing in the Vortex : The Story of Ida Rubinstein (2001) by Vicki Woolfe, p. 56
Context: Do you really think that my music is devoid of religious antecedents? Do you wish to put an artist's soul under restraint? Do you find it difficult to conceive that one who sees mystery in everything — in the song of the sea, in the curve of the horizon, in the wind and in the call of the birds — should have been attracted to a religious subject? I have no profession of faith to utter to you: but, whichever my creed may be, no great effort on my part was needed to raise me to the height of d'Annunzio's mysticism. I can assure you that my music was written in exactly the spirit as if it had been commissioned for performance in church.
Have I succeeded in expressing all that I felt? It is for others to decide. Is the faith which my music expresses orthodox? I do not know; but I can say that it is my own, expressed in all sincerity.
“I wish I could do some really weird stuff for you guys, you know?”
After a stint of hyperactive gymnastic antics upon the stage.
Jim Carrey's Unnatural Act (1991)
