"How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again."

“A robin red-breast in a cage, puts all of Heaven in a rage. Think to yourself that every day is your last. The hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus's herd.”

“Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.”

Source : "Artist Carrie Mae Weems on 30 Years of Genius [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kristin Braswell, www.ebony.com. February 5, 2014.

“There are plenty of Christian writers out there telling people what they should think. I'm happy to be one of the Christian writers simply telling people to think. For themselves.”

“oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo? Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ...book with everyone's picture in it, that you have in high school." "Yearbook," I said. Was he trying to be funny? But of course he was right; that's exactly where it was from.”

“A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.”

Source : Joseph Roth (2002). “The Radetzky March”, p.206, The Overlook Press

“It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.”

“I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.”

“I came, I saw, I conquered.”