"Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people."

“I didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know.”

“Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.”

“Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.”

Source : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

“How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.”

“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”

“With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.”

Source : "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

“... too much brooding, not enough doing.”

Source : Timothy Findley (1999). “Pilgrim”, HarperFlamingo Canada