"Hatred is toxic to you and those around you. The condition should be treated with understanding and love until it is healed."

“I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.”

“When the money dries up, the sites die off. That's the way to go after piracy.”

“We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.”

“Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea, then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone.”

Source : "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, 2010.

“You must be ready in mind, body, and spirit before you can make a change. People cannot convince you to do it. You cannot force you to do it. Everything you think, say, and do until that happens is just preparation. So love yourself right now. Honor yourself. Keep talking to yourself. Keep thinking ready thoughts. In the meantime, try to remember you will not be ready until you are ready.”

“Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.”

“I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.”

“There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.”

Source : "In Memoriam - Eugene James Martin". Direct Art Magazine, Vol. 13, p. 86, Fall-Winter 2006.