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“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.”
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“The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.”
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“So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and enter the sphere of the ultimate mysteries of life. The floorboards of the soul, to which we try to penetrate, fan open and reveal the starry firmament.”
Source : Bruno Schulz, Jerzy Ficowski (1990). “Letters and drawings of Bruno Schulz: with selected prose”, Fromm Intl
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“Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.”
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“Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.”
Source : Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
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“Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.”
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“My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.”
Source : "Kemp Won't Enter 1996 Primaries" by Dan Balz, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 1995. 
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“If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.”
