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“I learned as a really young kid, when my dad was telling me one story and my mom was telling me another that, even as a 5-year-old boy, there was no way that both of these stories are true. Something in the middle is true, and I have to figure out what it is, what the truth is, and I never did quite figure that out.”
Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012. 
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“The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.”
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“Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.”
Source : "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.
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“Pluralism and tolerance are pillars of modern society. That has to be accepted. But pluralism doesn't just mean diversity. It means that we share the same rules and values, and are still nevertheless different. Islam doesn't have this idea. And Islam also has no tradition of tolerance.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
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“The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.”
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“I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections don't happen for years. But when they do, I marvel. As in a shimmering kaleidoscope, familiar patterns keep unfolding”
Source : Dorothy Height, Height (2009). “Ebk Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memo”, p.1, PublicAffairs
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“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
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“Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.”
