"Happiness does not depend on the size or content of a goal, but on the strength of the desire to have it."

“Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.”

“It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.”

Source : Fredric Jameson (1991). “Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”, p.9, Duke University Press

“Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.”

“Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.”

Source : "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. March 10, 2000.

“You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think. -Angela the Herbalist”

“I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.”

“So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.”

Source : "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road". www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.

“Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born.”