"Better close your window tight or I might come in for a bite, I'm a sleep walker."

“While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.”

“If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.”

Source : "Olives, a Violent Romance That Resonates in the Arab World" by Magda Abu-Fadil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

“Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.”

“People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.”

Source : Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure (2004). “The luminous ground: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe”

“But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.”

“In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.108, tredition

“The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.”

“In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.”