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“What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'There's a right way, a wrong way, and my way.' You want to see how that looks on the page, pick up any of Craig McDonald's novels. He's built him a nice little shack out there way off all the reg'lar roads, and he's brewing some fine, heady stuff. Leave your money under the rock and come back in an hour.”
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“That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.”
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“I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.”
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“People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists.”
Source : Gurbaksh Chahal (2008). “The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions”, p.59, Macmillan
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“I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.”
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“Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.”
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“I take a situation, analyse it, break it down, put it in the form I want it to be in, and then I toss it away. Let somebody else go deal with it.”
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“Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.”
Source : Darin Strauss (2014). “More Than It Hurts You”, p.69, Atlantic Books Ltd
