"People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty"

“I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges and mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.”

Source : Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press

“Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!”

“After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.”

“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.35, Xist Publishing

“And when you can't do nothing else - pray.”

“It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.”

“Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism”

“We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.”