connolly Quotes

“I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.”

“Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.”

“The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.”

“The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.”

“Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.”

“I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.”

“Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.”

“As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.”

“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.”

“Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.”