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“If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“I'm a big believer in the collective unconscious. The idea that there is a deep connection between all of us that goes back to our ancestors and forward to the people who will come after us. It's essentially the job of the artist to anchor that nebulous space, and I think that's what a writer does: goes to that strange place and brings back these little trinkets. The unspoken experience percolated throughout the generations allows you to have knowledge of things you wouldn't know first hand.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?”
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“Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.”
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“Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?”
Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
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“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”
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“Nature's curriculum cannot be changed.”
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“The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.”
Source : "Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays". Book by Keith Stern, 2009.
