"You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done."

“The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.7, e-artnow

“There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.”

“People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I'm living proof that the 'lucky breaks' theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck. ... The world is run by those who show up...not those who wait to be asked.”

Source : Steve Blank's Commencement Address at Philadelphia University in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.businessinsider.com. May 17, 2011.

“Be content to seem what you really are.”

“Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.”

Source : "The Apophenion: A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.

“I was 16 when my father died, and I had a choice to come back and live in his house or I'd stay at the school. But I felt if my father wanted me to go to that school when I was 5, there must have been a reason - and I understood that reason when I was a teenager, because that school became the only place where I was safe.”

“Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.”