"Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film."

-- Jonathan Lethem

#Thinking Quotes #Energy Quotes #Gone Quotes

“My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.”

Source : "American Dreamer" by Bharati Mukherjee, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.
“I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.”
“I would let my fans and people looking from the outside looking in dictate that. But, in my mind I gotta treat myself like I'm the best and gotta strive to be better than what I am. So of course my work ethic and the way I think as a person and an artist I'll feel that way. But on a boasting level, you would never hear that come out my mouth.”

Source : Source: thesource.com
“Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.”
“I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.”
“Itâ€™s sweet. All this trouble for a kitty.”
“If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?”

Source : Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.14, Penguin
“The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'”

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