"Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests."

“In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.”

“Celtic fans are some of the greatest supporters I know.”

“Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.”

“They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.”

“Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.”

“A negative is never finished.”

Source : Sigmar Polke, Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), Site Santa Fe (Gallery), Corcoran Gallery of Art (1995). “Sigmar Polke: photoworks, when pictures vanish”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

“If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.”

“I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.”

Source : "Universities Gain Power In Literary World". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 12, 2010.