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“That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.”
Source : William Irwin Thompson (1996). “The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture”, p.87, Palgrave Macmillan
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“The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle’s diameter into its circumference.”
Source : Richard Preston (2008). “Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science”, p.35, Random House
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“Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When you sit and write it down, you realize it's a very poor script. But I may find ideas while dozing.”
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“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.”
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“I don't care what straight people do, I don't care what gay people do. I don't care what nobody do. That's they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I'm saying?”
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“Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.”
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“To read too many books is harmful.”
Source : Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram (1974). “Mao Tse-tung unrehearsed: talks and letters, 1956-71”, Penguin Books
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“It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.”
