"As writers we need to crack open language."

“I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.”

Source : "Grizzly Bear". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 3, 2012.

“Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.”

“If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.”

Source : Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.66, Random House

“Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco”

“Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.”

“I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people's marginalization from what the art subculture is because if you haven't crashed the codes, and if you don't know what it is, you feel it's a conspiracy against your unintelligence. You feel it's fraud.”

“Face your potential. It's been staring at you for far too long.”

“In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.”

Source : Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.10, Ballantine Books