#al

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars. ↗

— James Gunn

#expedition #hope #i #mars #off

Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#become #believe #character #child #faith

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass. ↗

— James Gunn

#encompass #human #human life #ideas #life

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#art #gallery #humans #kind #look

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#collected #contains #ginsberg #making #neal

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#home #how #hypothetical #i #know

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#considered #enjoy #heterosexual #homosexual #i

I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#could #goat #i #land #live

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#fact #had #i #important #important fact

What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time. ↗

— John Gunther

#believed #color #fabric #flavor #gave