"I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence."

“How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?”

“I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.”

Source : Cate Marvin (2007). “Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems”

“Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.”

Source : John Hay (1913). “Poems”

“In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.”

Source : Louise Beebe Wilder (1918). “Colour in My Garden”

“For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.”

“Storm is prerequisite to mental gain”

Source : Song: Liquid Sovereignty

“By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.”

Source : "The Blurb #11: A Fresh Eye" by Rabih Alameddine, therumpus.net. October 27, 2009.

“I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.”