"Of course that's the best way to continue to learn anything: Try to teach it!"

“That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.”

“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1961). “The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall”

“Markets are not, in my opinion, a full solution to any problem. The obvious problem they don't meet is the concerns of the welfare of individuals who may get lost in the operation of the system - the distributional question. We've seen this growing as we go further and further toward a market ideology in the United States and the United Kingdom. We've seen a decline in the welfare of the working poor, leaving aside any other pathologies, just the working poor, a very distinct increase at the very top levels.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

“Let us continue to strive together for a more inclusive, democratic, and peaceful future for us all.”

“All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.”

“Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.”

“The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.”

“I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.”