"The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick."

“Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content"......Conan the Cimmerian.”

“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.”

Source : "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger, 1972.

“That's why I think it's important to revisit the story of Jonestown. I hope readers come away with a greater compassion for Jim Jones's victims, a third of whom were minors. To get a feeling for what it was like to be in their situation.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.”

“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.”

“It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.”

“The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on”

Source : George Oppen, Robert Creeley (2003). “George Oppen: Selected Poems”, p.80, New Directions Publishing

“What made me empathic was my depressions.”