# Quotes
“Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.”
“A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.”
“Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person, we can contribute nothing to him. One does not help a person by discerning what is wrong, what is ugly, what is distorted. Christ looked at everyone he met, at the prostitute, at the thief, and saw the beauty hidden there. Perhaps it was distorted, perhaps damaged, but it was beauty none the less, and what he did was to call out this beauty.”
“Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.”
Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.
“I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.”
“Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.”
“But when Gronk scores – it was like his eighth touchdown of the year – he spikes the ball and he deflates the ball. I love that, because I like the deflated ball. But I feel bad for that football, because he puts everything he can into those spikes,”
“There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.”
