"Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass."

-- Marketa Irglova

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“It always seems to people that I'm avoiding saying, 'It's autobiographical,' but I really do believe that human beings make stories and they make themselves. If I told you the same story twelve years ago, I could have emphasized something different. The importance changes, the meaning of things shifts over time. Also, I think all art is autobiographical. Every endeavor is full of impressions of ourselves.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.”
“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, â€œLook, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
“Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.”
“Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.”
“What I've been thinking about recently is the idea of finite and fragility. Either we're acknowledging that our lives here are finite, this moment is finite, and that this whole world is fragile, or we're not, but it is really happening and that is really true.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.”
“Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.228, University of Missouri Press

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