"Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began."

“Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.432

“It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.”

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.”

“We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.”

“they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine”

Source : Lucille Clifton (1993). “Next: new poems”, Bookslinger

“Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.”

“I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.”

Source : "Antony Sher, actor - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2013.