"Your best penalty killer is your goalie."

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”

Source : "Outside Over There". Interview With Emma Brockes, harpers.org. March 2013.

“My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.”

“I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.”

“The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.”

Source : "Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof : a Life in Letters and Documents". Book by Arshile Gorky, 2009.

“Inspiration in desperation.”

Source : Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.217, Hachette UK

“We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.”

“What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

“Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.”