"You can't touch music, but music can touch you"

“Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though there was no easy way to make a living from it.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

“Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...”

“Good is always a good thing.”

“There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!”

“There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”

“There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms, and would not tolerate such a loss if they could perceive it. But the erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all-out frontal assault but rather as a gradual, noxious creeping, cloaked in secrecy, and glossed over by reassurances of greater security.”

Source : "Life in the Shadows of the Empire" by Eamon Martin, www.counterpunch.org. March 18, 2006.

“My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.”

Source : Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

“There is little difference in being lost and exploring.”

Source : Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1960). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.282, Simon and Schuster