"I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books."

“All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?”

“I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.”

“I'm a common-sense kind of guy.”

“How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit.”

Source : Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.62, Heinemann

“Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”

Source : Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.7, Usborne Publishing Ltd

“The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.”

“It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide, and to be able to take rejection well. 2) Do your homework. Check out galleries. Don't just walk in with your work. Be as professional as you can. 3)... there is a gallery for everybody.”

“The designer shouldn't think of a simple dichotomy between errors and correct behavior; rather, the entire interaction should be treated as a cooperative endeavor between person and machine, one in which misconceptions can arise on either side.”