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" I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know. "

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" Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. "

" In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne. "

" Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker. "

" Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. "

" Humanity hungers for the uncommon. "

" As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing. "

" There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity. "

" Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child. "

" Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment. "

" Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there. "

" Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks. "

" I was a reflective child. "

" While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have? "

" Darkness is full of possibility. "

" Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult. "

" Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit. "

" The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society. "

" For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul. "

" A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. "

" Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. "

" I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers. "

" Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world. "

" What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls. "

" It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive. "

" I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand. "

" Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world. "

" Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny. "

" Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped. "

" The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did. "