"It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent."

“I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.”

Source : "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

“You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.”

“I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.”

“Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.”

“My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.”

“Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.”

“Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.”

“The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.”

Source : Louis Agassiz (1873). “Geological Sketches”, p.234