"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading."

“[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.”

“I would never do it because if I took steroids, I would hit 60 or 70 home runs.”

Source : "Reigning NL MVP Ryan Braun Has Reportedly Tested Positive For Performance-Enhancing Drugs" by Ariel Sandler, www.businessinsider.com. December 12, 2011.

“Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.”

“The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2012). “Train Dreams”, p.27, Granta Books

“I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be swept aside.”

Source : "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

“I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.”

“It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.”

“The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.”