"Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained."

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.”

“For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.”

“The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me -and I love to live life at full throttle.”

“Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest.”

“History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.41, Univ of California Press

“If you follow a trend, by the time it is released it will sound like the same regurgitated music that the public has been hearing for the past eight months (at least.) I am not referring to genres or production that is considered to be timeless or "classic" sounding.”

“Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.”

“It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama,”

Source : "Jamie Foxx Calls Barack Obama 'Our Lord and Savior' at Soul Train Awards, Catholic Group Fires Back" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. November 26, 2012.