"He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing."

“It's not the ink, it's the think.”

Source : "Inking and Thinking" by Robert Mankoff, www.newyorker.com. June 16, 2010.

“Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.”

“I want to be remembered as a man who was positive, who made a difference, and who walked in God's light.”

“If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both.”

Source : Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

“I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.”

“I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.”

“When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture.”

“perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday