"Iâ€™m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire"

-- Gregory Crewdson

#Anxiety Quotes #Desire Quotes #Iconography Quotes

“I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.”

Source : "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview With Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015.
“Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.”
“We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.”
“Denmark is charging a fat food tax on cheese, meat, and oil. Here, we call that the Denny's Grand Slam breakfast.”
“Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling”
“Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.”
“If you don't like vampire games, don't play”
“My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.”

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