"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts."

“It's true that tribal rivalries have something to do with political instability. It's also true that those rivalries were exaggerated by colonialism. Colonialism essentially insulted the tribal territories, and as a result, nations came to be composed of an agglomeration of many tribes - 65 in Burkina Faso alone. The Mossi majority sees itself as the owner of Africa; others are just negotiators for representation. That is the way it is now, and it is the sole responsibility of colonialism.”

Source : "VISIONS: Malidoma Some". Interview With D. Patrick Miller, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1995.

“We know that all must, in the end, stand by the side of the Divine. There is no escape from it, because that is His will.”

Source : Charles Webster Leadbeater (1909). “Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern”

“I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.”

“There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'”

“Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts.”

“Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.119, Knopf

“Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.”

“I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others.... Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to show off book learning, which at my stage of life can only invite ridicule, but rather to bathe in this kinship of strangers.”