"To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist."

“Im really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.”

“Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.”

“An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.”

“It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.”

Source : "Author Anne Rivers Siddons on her book ‘Nora, Nora’". Live chat, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.

“Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?”

“The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the expression of happiness, of being in harmony with ourselves, that which can only come from being in harmony with God and with his creation. It belongs to the nature of joy to be radiant; it must communicate itself. The missionary spirit of the Church is none other than the impulse to communicate the joy which has been given.”

“Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration (which are much the same thing).”

Source : Philippe Sollers (1994). “Watteau in Venice: A Novel”, Scribner

“The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.”