"You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love."

-- Elizabeth of the Trinity

“I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.”
“What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other”
“Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course.”

Source : "Oswald Mosley" by Robert Skidelsky, Papermacs, (p. 143), 1981.
“By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.”
“Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.”

Source : Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd (2013). “Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction”, p.19, Random House
“Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an artist of some kind. The lovely feeling of my pencil touching paper, a crayon making a star shape in my sketchbook, or my brush dipping into bright and colorful paints â€” these things affect me as joyfully today as they did all those years ago.”
“Names generate meaning in a short amount of space â€” they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be careful. Sometimes it can alienate the reader, it can be another level of mediation, to make a character carry the great burden of a metaphoric name. The character can be a device before he or she becomes a person, and that can be a bad thing for a writer who wants to offer up a kind of emotional proximity in the work. It's a constant struggle, the desire to be playful and the desire to communicate on some very stark emotional level.”
“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”

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