"But in action, one defies one's character."

“The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fairy tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.”

Source : "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922" edited by Christoph Vitali, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, exhibition catalogue (p. 41), 1991.

“We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.”

“There are no facts, only stories.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Harvey McGavin, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2004.

“Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.”

“I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.”

Source : Jerry Uelsmann, James Enyeart (1980). “Jerry N. Uelsmann: Photographs from 1975-1979”

“For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion (what can you really say in 140 characters?), but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.”

Source : "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 15, 2014.

“I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.”

Source : Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”

“The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire”