"Ah, tell them they are men!"

-- Thomas Gray

“The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.”
“I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.”
“Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.”

Source : FaceBook post by Brandon Mull from Feb 21, 2013
“Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel writers are like reservoirs of images. We take in what is around us.”

Source : Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.”

Source : Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company
“Your life is in your hands. No matter where you are now, no matter what has happened in your life,you can begin to consciously choose your thoughts, and you can change your life.There is no such thing as a hopeless situation.Every single circumstance of your life can change!”
“In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.”
“Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.”

Source : "10 Questions with Steven Pressfield, Author of The War of Art". Interview with Jeff Goins, goinswriter.com. May 11, 2011.

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