"All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists."

-- Steven Erikson

#Art Quotes #Self Quotes #Risk Quotes

“All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why.”
“Education is life itself.”
“I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.”

Source : "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.
“To play nose tackle in the NFL, you have to be unemployed or crazy. I was unemployed. The other part is still up in the air.”
“What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place.”
“And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.”
“LSD, yeah, the big parade â€“ everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me.”
“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”

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