Science, Art

There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts.
--Vladimir Nabokov

Simple

Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.
--Alexis de Tocqueville

Vacation

Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do...basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
--Bill Murray

Sweeter

I'm glad that I got a chance to experience some of the misery with them along this road, because that champagne tastes a lot sweeter having gone through that.
--David Wright

Want

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
--Milan Kundera

We Are

Certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
--Virginia Woolf

Music

Music should never be harmless.
--Robbie Robertson

Not Hear

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Mistake

Without music life would be a mistake.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Inexpressible

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
--Aldous Huxley

Here

Our universe is what it is simply because we are here.
--Alan Lightman

Whole Truth

Tell the whole truth. Don't be lazy, don't be afraid. Close the critic out when you are drafting something new. Take chances in the interest of clarity of emotion.
--Jane Kenyon

Particulars

A large acquaintance with particulars often makes us wiser than the possession of abstract formulas, however deep.
--William James

Mets

Take a moment to thank the Lord that social media did not exist during your playing career. The entire '86 Mets team probably would have been locked up.
--Doc Gooden

Connecting

I believe that there is something connecting us--something that was here before we got here and will still be here after we're gone. I've begun to believe that all of our consciousnesses are bound up in that greater consciousness.
--Dani Shapiro

Our Time

Declining to describe our lives as unified stories is the only way we can hope to live out our time other than as tragedy.
--Helen Small

Vulnerability

The digital age has emerged out of our biggest vulnerability--to mindlessly consume until we're saturated and numb and even more mindless.
--Jennifer Stewart

Rules

Religions have no morals. They have rules.
--Duke Raul

Beauty

Beauty always has rules. It's a game.
--Ursula K. Le Guin

Choice

Those who oppose it have made a moral choice: that they would rather have gun massacres of children continue rather than surrender whatever idea of freedom or pleasure they find wrapped up in owning guns or seeing guns owned.
--Adam Gopnick

Distraction

Life today is a battle against distraction. You start off intent on doing one thing and end up doing another. Or not doing anything at all.
--Roger Cohen

Three Sides

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
--Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu