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“Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy. In the end, all you get is a few words.”
Source : Scott Nicholson (2010). “Kiss Me or Die: A Psychological Thriller”, p.4, Haunted Computer Books
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“I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.”
Source : "Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams, 'Day by Day'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 30, 2005. 
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“A lot of my approach to the instrument, especially as I've gotten older, is to treat the piano in ways that are not very pianistic - to consider the sounds I'm after first, and to deal with technical considerations later.”
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“And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.”
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“Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.”
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“Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.”
Source : Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”
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“They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.”
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“The freeway is just like veins without a heart.”
