"There are so many things I would like to say. However, the most important thing that I do is allow myself to unplug, spend time with the people I love most, and not take the little things for granted."

“The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality”

“I love drama. I love to play an arc.”

Source : Interview with James Wood, gojimmygo.net. April 13, 2012.

“I would have rather had a dad with change jingling in his pocket; one who would have spent the last forty minutes of the world raking leaves for his kids to jump in, so that they perished in one loud, bright instant, giggles still bubbling up from their bellies, never suspecting a thing. Yeah, well. Tough luck, rich boy.”

Source : S. A. Bodeen (2008). “The Compound”, p.62, Feiwel & Friends

“Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.”

“Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.”

“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”

Source : Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.”

“Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.”