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“Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.”
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“But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?”
Source : Charles Portis (2010). “True Grit: A Novel”, p.84, The Overlook Press
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“There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.”
Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004. 
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“I once wrote that Black Americans are involved in an intriguing experiment to see if an oppressed minority can continue to march forward if there is not a strong and vibrant left-wing and radical movement. That's not an experiment I would recommend, although the story is still unfolding and we will see how it unfolds, but they are not the sort of conditions in which an oppressed minority should have to struggle.”
Source : Source: politicalaffairs.net
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“I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.”
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“If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.”
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“Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.”
