"No matter how bad you may feel, get up, show up, dress up, and never, ever give up."

“The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.”

Source : Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon

“We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree. "Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents. "Can't help you there, I'm afraid." In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names.”

“Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.”

Source : Jean Ferris (2004). “Once Upon a Marigold”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.”

“Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage.”

“Sadly, today there are only a few remaining speakers of kakadu or gagadju. The work, then, is concerned with my feelings about this place, its landscape, its change of seasons, its dry season and its wet, its cycle of life and death the melodic material in Kakadu, as in much of my recent music, was suggested by the contours and rhythms of Aboriginal chant.”

“Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals and politics and anti-theology dismayed him. His 'monadology' which said that the true atoms of nature were unextended 'living mirrors,' was an imaginative and beautiful system, and even in many ways more modern than Epicurean atomism, than Epicurean atomism, but there was a reactionary aspect to it.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.