"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."

“I need someone like me.”

Source : Song: I Need Someone Like Me, Album: Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind

“In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.”

“No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.”

“So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.”

Source : "Coup De Main x NZ On Air | The Veils". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

“Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?”

“Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas.”

“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”

“When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos - no matter what the parent's income or education level.”

Source : "Lewis Points Finger At ‘Rich White People’ For School Problems". chicago.cbslocal.com. June 19, 2013.