"I don't care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me."

“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.”

Source : Edward Steichen, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1963). “A Life in Photography”, Random House Value Pub

“Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry!”

“Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.”

Source : Ken Follett (2008). “Hornet Flight”, p.351, Pan Macmillan

“Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?”

“I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.”

“God is a verb, not a noun.”

“The tours are campaigns.”

“There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.”