“Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Some Hope, Chapter 9
“Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
His observations on the "strange events in our solar system" and as to why the sky looked blue and red colour was used in traffic lights to signal to vehicles to stop.
When Prof Jayant Narlikar saw the sun rise in the west
Quote from Yves Klein's lecture at the Sorbonne in 1959; published in Studio International, Vol. 186 (1973), p. 43; also quoted in: David Batchelor (2008) Colour. p. 122
before 1960
“I think General Pershing was the most military figure I’ve ever seen.”
On meeting General John Pershing
Kansascity.com.
“Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality!”
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
On atteint aisément une âme vivante à travers les crimes, les vices les plus tristes, mais la vulgarité est infranchissable.
Le Nœud de vipères (1932), cited from Oeuvres romanesques, vol. 2 (Paris: Flammarion, 1965) p. 190; Gerard Hopkins (trans.) Knot of Vipers (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1951] 1985) p. 193.
(19 January 2005)
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2005
Context: All I have to do is make you see this. This one particular thing here. That's all. And sometimes it's impossible. Sometimes, I know the best odds I can hope for are a thousand to one. You'll see what you see, what your life has conditioned you to see upon encountering that combination of words, not what I want or need you to see. Fiction writing is like making films for the blind.