"Bibles laid open, millions of surprises."

“You have to be willing to get back on that horse and try it again if the mood strikes. That was one of the great pieces of wisdom that I got early on in my career in terms of being blocked. If you get to a creative roadblock, you can sit there and rack your brain.”

“Being called gay is worse than transgender. I remember when I started fighting way back in 1999 for hijas' rights, and I said the state doesn't have the right to use my gender to club me into "gay." If I say I am not a man then who are you to question it? Being called gay or a man really upsets me.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.”

“I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.”

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

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”

“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”

“I urge Governments to considerably reduce funds allocated to the military, not only as a disarmament issue, but also as a potential contributor to social and environmental protection and call for the holding of referenda on this issue worldwide.”

“The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Time and Again”, p.56, Open Road Media