"I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look cold."

“There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.”

Source : Leonard Michaels (2008). “The Collected Stories”, p.404, Macmillan

“I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.”

“...and whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his...”

“I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.”

“The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.”

“Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.”

Source : "Why Bad Science Is Like Bad Religion" by Dr Rupert Sheldrake, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2012.

“Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.”

Source : David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Harvill Secker

“Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.”