"To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death."

“We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't.”

“Going up to Canada is great because I'm not dealing with people carrying their agendas into the room. I'm lucky because 97% of the people who come to the show know who they are dealing with, whether they are on the left or the right, we're sharing the same frustration.”

“It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.”

Source : Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”

“Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn't do in their entire collegiate careers.”

“A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.”

Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

“I shot my undergraduate work on 35mm. I love the way it looks, but I haven't shot film in a while. If you can avoid scanning, it makes your practice faster. Oh, and I shoot a lot of Polaroid, too. I have about five hundred Polaroids from my film that I hope to show soon.”

“The earth was blue but there was no god.”

“Writers are engineers of human souls.”