"Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life."

“I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.”

Source : "John Chamberlain, sculptor who used crushed-up cars, dies" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2011.

“Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.”

“I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a more democratic, pluralistic direction. You now find a lot of people who are looking outside of the mainstream of the history of art for their mentors. Maybe not heroes, but mentors.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

“It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.”

“All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.”

Source : "The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope".

“Today healing energy constantly flows through every organ, joint and cell in my body.”

“It's been so long since you last saw each other. She could at least smile.”

“When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.”

Source : Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.172, Tin House Books