
“Isn't life the strangest thing you've ever seen?”
Lines written for "Polly Vandersma", in I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
"Waiting for the Sun" on the album Morrison Hotel (1970)
“Isn't life the strangest thing you've ever seen?”
Lines written for "Polly Vandersma", in I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
“Who, on his own,
has ever really known who gave him life?”
I. 216 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“ Forest Whitaker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMEaTtPodAE,” ad for PETA (27 March 2008).
“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”
[Knuth, Donald, 2002, All Questions Answered, Notices of the AMS, 49, 3, 320, http://www.ams.org/notices/200203/fea-knuth.pdf, PDF]