"Life is not for show, but for real."

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”

Source : "Strange Innocence". Interview with J. T. LeRoy, July 2001.

“I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.”

“An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.”

“The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.”

Source : Louis Zamperini, David Rensin (2009). “Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II”, p.17, Harper Collins

“Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce.”

Source : Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”

“Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and children. How can arms manufacturers, weapons designers, plant managers, politicians, who have families of their own whom they love, be so insensitive when it comes to the suffering of other human beings?”

Source : Jose Ramos-Horta's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1996.

“Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's a very solo ritual. It's not gregarious at all. But vice has always informed country music and all music.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!”