"God has no cousins, only children."

“You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.”

“[The masses] ... must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and lies must be truth. "Higher bread prices," "lower bread prices," "unchanged bread prices" have all failed. The only hope lies in a kind of bread price which is none of these, which nobody has ever seen before, and which belies the evidence of one's reason.”

“Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats.”

“If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.”

“Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself.”

“I have often asked myself if I would have worked as hard if I was as ill as Steve Jobs. My answer is that my wife most likely would not have let me work, and I would have stayed home. But I am not Steve Jobs.”

Source : "Foxconn CEO: I Wouldn't Be Working As Hard As Steve Jobs If I Was As Ill As Him" by Paul Denlinger, www.businessinsider.com. June 09, 2011.

“Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up.”

Source : Song: A Little Too Much, Album: Handwritten, 2015

“An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it”