"We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are."

“My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.”

Source : "Alan Garner: a life in books". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.

“God has brought me this far. He has laid out a phenomenal path for me. And I can't do anything but thank him.”

“In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a lot of empirical work on the various psychological mechanisms by way of which the first-person point of view is produced, and, when we understand this, I believe, we can stop romanticising and mythologising the first-person perspective.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.”

“Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.”

“As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow—shopping centers, airports—it is evident that circulation is what makes or breaks public architecture....”

“I don't believe in writer's block.”

“It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?”

Source : "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: 'I didn't want to be black. So I joined the skinheads...'" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.