"My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon."

“That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.”

“We are a nation that shouts at a microwave oven to hurry up.”

“The gift of water, air, soap, and time allows us to heal and relieve our psyche and soul.”

Source : Byllye Avery (1998). “An Altar of Words: Wisdom, Comfort, and Inspiration for African American Women”, Broadway

“I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.”

“Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.”

“Google and Facebook extend internet access across the world, but the access is generally speaking to an internet that is focused on the advertisers to those sites.”

“For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.”