"Comedy = tragedy + time."

“I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it's that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I'm interested in.”

“In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . . . That $406 billion is pathetically squandered on interest, just because we lacked the discipline to pay our bills when due.”

Source : Bill Press (2008). “Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon)”, p.192, John Wiley & Sons

“In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”

“I wake up and I do class straight away, so that gives me a free day to do things.”

“Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.”

“Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.”

Source : Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria

“A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.”

Source : "User Interface Design For Programmers". Book by Joel Spolsky, www.joelonsoftware.com. October 24, 2001.

“Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.”