"Don’t let anyone say you can’t do it. To be successful, you need to fail. The more failures you have, the more successes you will have. People just don’t get that."

“Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.”

Source : Walter Rauschenbusch (2003). “Christianity and the Social Crisis”, p.91, Wipf and Stock Publishers

“Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.”

Source : G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

“Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.”

“Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.”

“I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.”

Source : Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

“If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.”

“Disability is the inability to see ability.”

Source : Twitter post from May 28, 2012

“I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.”