"There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like this situation, but that's the way it goes. The books are being born and then walk around the world, just as children do."

-- Stanislaw Lem

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“This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinetly. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse.”
“Some of the songs come so fully, it's like they are pre-packaged. There have been a couple that came in the middle of the night. And I thought, jeez, I'll never forget that. And went back to sleep, and it was gone. You'll hear something years later that another songwriter that you respect writes, and you go, jeez, I think that was the remnants of that song that got sent to me.”
“My inspiration is my hometown.”

Source : "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.”
“It's fun to sit down and do a few drawings, but when you have to sit down and do hundreds of drawings whose value only depends on getting to the end of the chain, then you've created a different kind of monster.”

Source : Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.
“I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.”
“From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.”
“When people begin to understand that whatever they think and feel happens, then the psychic phenomena begin to rise, which is what's happening now.”

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