"The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South."

“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”

“Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 14, 2014

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!”

Source : "American Voters Suffer Learned Helplessness" by Andrea Chalupa, bigthink.com. September 7, 2012.

“Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.”

Source : 1874 Romances sans paroles, 'Aquarelles, Green'

“Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been through an extra filter, another consciousness, in the guise of the translator. Some of my favorite writers who have written in English were doing so without English being their first language, so there's a sense of distance or of distortion there, too. Conrad. Nabokov. These writers were employing English in interesting ways.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.”

Source : Source: www.bookforum.com

“Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.”

“At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent”