I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.
“There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.”
“The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.”