"I view my stories as sexual or personal. Curiously, I don't. When I was writing those stories I thought of them as comedy pieces in the vein of performance monologue, such as you might get with Richard Pryor, or Lenny Bruce, or George Carlin. So I don't feel vulnerable because I know the line of demarcation between "Writer Kevin" and "Narrative Kevin.""

“For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement. I wanted to go a step further and extend the boundaries.”

Source : Audrey Flack, Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Hills, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery (1992). “Breaking the rules: Audrey Flack, a retrospective 1950-1990”, Harry N Abrams Inc

“Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that had to be fed with animal sacrifices in order to burn brightly. Today we have evolved a long way from this ridiculous notion of a 'fire god' and now rightfully understand God to be a bearded being who lives amongst the clouds and hates Jews and homosexuals.”

“each dot: the center of a circle without circumference ...”

“The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (1863). “The betrothal. The espousals”, p.104

“You're sure he's not a vampire?' Claire said.'I've seen movies. They're sneaky.' She was kidding. Eve didn't smile.”

“I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.”

“International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.”

“Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Sep 02, 2012