"I would not be able to retain all the information, all the medical jargon these doctors do. I'm not really intelligent enough is what I'm saying."

“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”

“One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.”

Source : "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America". Book by William Chapin Seitz, p. 136 : in Artists Club, January 8, 1952, 1983.

“Success is a very scary thing especially after you choose something and everything starts coming at you. It's absolutely frightening because the mind does things. It says, 'You've got to hold on to this or get away from this.”

“Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.”

“To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

“The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a man's worrying and fussing and scheming. When his interest is diverted inwards he naturally relaxes his hold - his stranglehold - on the outer world. Having withdrawn his capital and paid it into his own Central Bank (where it appreciates to infinity), he has nothing to lose out there and no reason for interfering. He knows how to let things be and work out in their own time. He's in no hurry. Knowing the Self, he can hardly fail to trust its products.”

“Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.”

“Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.”

Source : William Bartram (2012). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.26, Courier Corporation