"I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's left over from life."

“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.”

“It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the ruffle at the edge of a skirt; and I am pockmarked with whole-body pinpricks of potentiality. A stretch of my body would surely stretch as far as the sky. The whole universe poised, and I am the agent of any movement.”

“Introducing a technology is not a neutral act--it is profoundly revolutionary. If you present a new technology to the world you are effectively legislating a change in the way we all live. You are changing society, not some vague democratic process. The individuals who are driven to use that technology by the disparities of wealth and power it creates do not have a real choice in the matter. So the idea that we are giving people more freedom by developing technologies and then simply making them available is a dangerous illusion.”

“Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.”

“Makeup should be fun, not fascist.”

“Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?”

Source : Jonathan Evison (2012). “West of Here”, p.295, Algonquin Books

“Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.”

“Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.”