"Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view out (in flight) is better than you might expect; the profuseion of canopy struts is not particularly a problem. In addition to the above the small cockpit makes you feel more a part of the aeroplane."

“The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (1988). “The far side of the street: fifteen short stories”

“Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.”

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

“Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.”

Source : 1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.1.

“If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?”

“In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.”

“Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.”

“Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.”

“Yes, but the thing is my influences are so rooted in afro-American culture especially that it's quite sad to not enjoy the same success because the influences are so strong from there.”