"If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier."

“As soon as one is born, one starts dying.”

Source : Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.46, Luigi Pirandello

“I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.”

“I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

“You can be sad for others but you don't have to take on their pain.”

“I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends.”

“I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.”

“Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always be 'nice' to you. Nice gets you a C+ in life. We don't always smile, talk in a soft voice, or engage in indiscriminate hugs. In the loving struggle between the sexes we thrust and parry.”

“I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.”

Source : "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.