Mike

“This guy was like a sailor who had studied the compass and found that there was a fifth direction in which one could sail."
(Jerry Juhl on being offered a job with Muppets, Inc.)”
― Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography

“And now to one side Gorgythion drooped his head and heavy helmet; He let it fall over like the bloom of a garden poppy, heavy with seed and the rains of spring.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“One viewer - a Mr. Dionne from California... fired off an angry, rambling letter, complaining haughtily that "the most disciplined attention I could give [The Cube] was a belch from the grave of Marcus Aurelius, occasioned, I might add, by the dead weight of its own dust caving in on itself." Two weeks later came Jim's one-sentence response:

Dear Mr. Dionne:
What the fuck are you talking about?
Yours truly,
JIM HENSON”
― Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography

“Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...”
― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel