"All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path."

-- Sigrid Undset

“We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.”
“As a nation, we have never embraced aging.”

Source : "10 secrets of the anti-aging industry" by Elizabeth O'Brien, www.marketwatch.com. February 13, 2014.
“We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.”
“I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success”
“Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere as the other; that is to say both of them are equally brazen in their lies, and it is only fools who are deceived by them. Sensible persons, all those who have had some political experience, do not even take the trouble of reading such manifestos.”
“Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."”
“I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.”

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