Twenty-One Things You Don't Know About Me
Context: My favorite word is "redemption." I like both its meaning and the sound. My least favorite word is "maybe." "Maybe" is almost always a "no" drawn out in cruel fashion.
Source: Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
“Redemption's just a word and as I'm not a Christian it means nothing to me.”
The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal
“Through the sounding of the Word and through reflection upon its meaning, the Way is found.”
The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect : a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary by Alice A. Bailey, (1927)
“My favorite word? It’s 'act.”
Karen Smith et al. Ai Weiwei (Contemporary Artists (Phaidon), London: Phaidon Press, 2009.
2000-09, 2009
Introduction to McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (2004)
On starting off in poetry (as quoted in the book “Race and the Modern Artist” https://books.google.com/books?id=4XY8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq)
“My two favorite dishes. I never get enough. Of course, both must be the best.”
On seeing a buffet table with only two dishes, enormous bowls of caviar, and platters of hot dogs.
National Review, Jan 22, 1988 by Schuyler Chapin http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n1_v40/ai_6284435/
“You are in my silences like a poet in search of words, like a sound in time with my heart.”
Original: Sei nei miei silenzi come un poeta in cerca di parole, come un suono a tempo col mio cuore.
Source: prevale.net
