"The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle."

“Nothing is more abstract than reality.”

Source : Karen Wilkin, Giorgio Morandi (2007). “Giorgio Morandi: works, writings and interviews”, Poligrafa Ediciones Sa

“You want to do something for the Lord...do it. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though youre shaking in your boots, youre scared to death -- take the first step forward. The grace comes with that one step and you get the grace as you step. Being afraid is not a problem; its doing nothing when you feel afraid.”

“The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.”

“When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.”

“I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.”

“C is the assembly language of Tcl.”

“Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].”

Source : "Alice Winocour’s Chaos and Order". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 10, 2016.

“No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Historia, XXIII. 5, 1922.