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“Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.”
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“If you can see them [the terrorists] as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.”
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“Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was interested in figuring out my response to them, and other people's responses. I wanted to get closer to the music than I could by listening to it - I wanted to get inside of it, behind it, and writing about it through it, inside of it, behind it, was my way of doing that.”
Source : Greil Marcus (2011). “Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010”, p.17, Faber & Faber
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“I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture. I'm quite sure of this. I think it's insane how many pictures have to be taken these days. We have to realize there's a level of documentation that's just chatter, it's noise, and beyond that, people who are truly documenting are going to have to find a way to puncture that.”
Source : "Ian MacKaye, D.C. Rocker’s Library Of Congress Lecture: The Most Interesting Snippets" By Will Wrigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013. 
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“Though we may not always be able to avoid pain, we can choose how much we suffer.”
Source : Judy Tatelbaum (2013). “You Don't Have to Suffer: A Handbook for Moving Beyond Life's Crises”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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“Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.”
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“I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.”
Source : Twitter post from Nov 10, 2015
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“The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.”
Source : Bret Anthony Johnston (2014). “Remember Me Like This: A Novel”, p.197, Random House
