"In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike."

"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."

"That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."

"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."

"Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming."

"It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record."

"What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness."

"Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison."