"Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts."

“I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.”

“There is life or death in words.”

“If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.”

“Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.”

Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

“I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.”

“I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.”

“I'm really a clean-cut kid.”

“I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!”