"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."

-- Naguib Mahfouz

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“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.”

Source : Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.
“The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.”
“Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward.”
“The honester the man, the worse luck.”
“I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.”
“[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living at the centre of the wound.”
“One of the things I've had to struggle with is that part of what people find critically and curatorially questionable in my work is that I try to make things that don't read as art until they're in a gallery.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.”

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