"Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles."

“You have stopped the arrow of time... There's no meaning to this rhyme... Because my song will never mean as much as the one.. He once sang.. For you, yes, you...”

“Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.”

“Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.”

“People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.”

Source : Rachel Kushner (2014). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

“Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me. When you grow up with classic rock like that and then you get into punk rock, you defy your roots and where you came from. I never really went through that. Even when I started listening to the Clash or the Sex Pistols, I still always listened to Led Zeppelin or Kiss.”

“Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?”

“It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness...”

Source : Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

“If there was ever a food that had politics behind it, it is soul food. Soul food became a symbol of the black power movement in the late 1960s. Chef Marcus Samuelsson, with his soul food restaurant Red Rooster in Harlem, is very clear about what soul food represents. It is a food of memory, a food of labor.”