"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"

“Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe or of the laws of nature.”

“Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?”

“The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.”

Source : Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

“These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.”

“Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.436

“If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.”

Source : 1678 Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning,'The Prologue'.

“All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.”

“Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists”