"When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues"

“For me, the show must go on - it doesn't matter how ill you are, you get on and do it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.”

“It is so easy to take the violet flame and to use it that I am certain that once you begin you will recognize that the violet flame and the angels of the violet flame are the servants of the sons and daughters of God and the children of the Light, that the violet flame joyously serves you and acts to cleanse your entire being so that, as Jesus said, your whole body can be full of light.”

“People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.”

“From the age of 14, 13, I guess I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. And that was it. I wanted to make a living playing rock 'n' roll, and it was a ridiculously impossible dream at that time. But it was kind of all I ever wanted to do. It's nice to do it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.”

“My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.”

Source : "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

“Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.”

Source : A History of Europe ch. 1 (1935)