"We've got a lot of love from Chicago, you know we've been selling out big venues in Chicago that other people don't sell out. Our music is something that's a bit different you know from what's being publicized and that's going against everything else coming out in Chicago."

“The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real. That is the way I would explain reality.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (1991). “Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic”, p.177, UNC Press Books

“One thing you think about when you do get nominated is that there is a coalition of people that think you performed okay in the role. You start to think about how much of a blessing it is to have your peers and then people outside of your peer group to say bravo.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.”

Source : Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

“I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.”

“Learn to think for yourself, unless of course you can identify someone else with better judgement, and a flashlight.”

“There is nothing to prevent you from pushing your propaganda, to push your programme out to the students or with the public at large…and if you can carry the ground, if you are right, you win. That’s democracy.”

“It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.”

Source : Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.126, Timber Press

“Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with little fanfare, those moments. They're not particularly photogenic. There's no breach in the clouds to reveal the shining city on a hill. No folk dancing children outside your bus, no production values to speak of- just a glimpse of such quotidian, incontrovertible truth that after the initial shock at the supreme weirdness of it all, a kind of calm sets in. So this is to be my life.”