"I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue."

“It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.”

“The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.”

“The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.”

Source : "The Rumpus mini-interview project #102: Max Winter". Interview with Maria Anderson, therumpus.net. September 21, 2017.

“I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.”

“Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty.”

“Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way that it is a universe in itself... Within this is a test and also a judgment upon yourself, your capabilities, your promises, and the part that you play in the world. And nobody else can test that for you. Certainly not the Museum of Modern Art.”

“I started writing stories in my spare time.”

“Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.”

Source : Darrin Patrick (2014). “The Dude's Guide to Manhood: Finding True Manliness in a World of Counterfeits”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc