"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."

“People cannot stand too much Reality.”

“Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.”

“I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.”

“I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.”

“We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.”

Source : Walter Brueggemann (2010). “The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word”, p.26, Fortress Press

“Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be a combination of policies that would lead to a certain group dying out.”

“After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.”

Source : Janet Kauffman (2008). “Trespassing: Dirt Stories and Field Notes”, p.108, Wayne State University Press

“Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.”