"To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French."

“Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.”

Source : "Through a Computer Darkly: Group Selection and Higher Brain Function". Gerald Edelman, "Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences", Volume 36, No. 1 (p. 25), www.jstor.org. October 1982.

“I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.”

Source : Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.10, Harper Collins

“I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.”

“Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away, Gone from the earth to a better land I know, I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.”

Source : Stephen Collins Foster (2010). “Stephen Foster & Co: Lyrics of America's First Great Popular Songs”

“When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.”

“I think making an album is a difficult thing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Once I sold my shares and figured I wanted to get out of the magazine business it was like, "Now I can do whatever I want, anything I want in the world." And I guess I subconsciously hoped it would be something a little more adult. But I just want to do funny shorts, and TV is the ultimate endpoint for that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.”