"I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal."

“A black Christian is like a black person with no memory.”

“The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.”

“I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.”

“Just because you take gluten out of something doesn't make it a health food.”

“It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot,”

Source : Igor Ivan Sikorsky (1964). “Recollections and Thoughts of a Pioneer: Presented at the Wings Club on November 16, 1964, New York City”

“Education is the only solution for peace.”

“Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.”

Source : Herbert Gold (1971). “The Magic Will: Stories & Essays”, p.30, Transaction Publishers

“Maybe you should just press the button”