"Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure."

“When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.”

Source : Song: Master Blaster, 1980

“Art's too long and life's too short.”

“When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.”

“The lesson from the smith and wesson is depressin'.”

“Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.”

“These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.”

“I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.”

Source : Rivka Galchen (2008). “Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

“Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.”