David Budbill Quotes

#1. Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is called illusion (bhranti).

Dada Bhagwan

#2. I don't blame Germans," Emil said. "I don't even blame Nazis. I blame people who want to live at the expense of others.

Steve Anderson

#3. Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson].

Edward Norton

#4. I was physically revolted by and secretly frightened of those round moronic eyes, the pancake face, and orangeworms hair.

Toni Morrison

#5. Struggle is what it means to be alive and free.

David Budbill

#6. The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

Henry Miller

#7. What seems real one moment is fiction the next
and gone out of existence the moment after that.
Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,
and change our only constancy.

David Budbill

#8. All learned people learn Latin. It's bound to come in useful. Fairy tales, on the other hand, are about real life.

Monica Furlong

#9. I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?

David Budbill