"Never put off writing until you are better at it."

“Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.”

“He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1844). “Philip van Artvelde; a dramatic romance ... Second edition”, p.21

“Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.”

“To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately.”

Source : "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

“Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.”

“Being in shape was not my goal. My body was a tool to test the capabilities of my will.”

“If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex of its development; if they can be made to understand that the conflicts and contradictions of society can only be resolved by scientific long-range planning-then we will succeed in maintaining what civilization we have and drive onward to greater culture.”

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”