"A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families."

“Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.”

“Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.”

“None of the more apparently expressive elements involved in my work - color, form, application, and so on - are important or instructive in themselves. They're all just a means of entry, markers pointing beyond themselves towards something broader and less controlled.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

“Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain.”

“Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It speaks rather in his favor. This used to be much better understood.”

“When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD players and TVs and all these things to produce distractions for them, and I think it would be hard to find the time to create something. I think that's really changing something about adolescence.”

“I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.”