"I don't know everything; is the first statement of wanting to know"

“when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.”

“It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.”

“The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.”

“When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.”

Source : Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

“Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

“The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.”

“The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.”