"I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college"

“In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.”

“With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.”

“Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.”

Source : Elisabeth Tova Bailey (2010). “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating”, p.40, Algonquin Books

“Suddenly, I realized how tough trying to structure a story like this is. It was a lot of work. The one big advantage that we had was that we had eight scripts written before we started shooting, or even started casting. We had a really good opportunity to look at it and figure out where we were going to go and how to do it. Once we got a cast, which I love, then we started doing some revisions to make sure that they fit into it.”

“Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.”

“That perfect day, that magic moment that we're all waiting for, is right now.”

Source : "Interview with Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Having a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively choose to engage with the world - whether you're in a relationship or not. It's not about disappearing into existing structures, norms, and privileges. It's precisely about breaking with the existing structures, values, and norms that prohibit real love in our culture.”

Source : "NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBE CURRENT ISSUE PREVIOUS POSTS True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

“Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.”