"Then I fell in love and everything went to hell."

-- Peter Carey

“It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.”
“Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.”
“I am a rune a carrot a little joke”

Source : Walter Wykes (2006). “Three Plays of the Absurd”, p.279, Lulu.com
“I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.”
“The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.”

Source : Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.
“Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives.”
“The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them.”
“To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless.”

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