"It's the best thing in the world to be onstage, but not when you can barely stand up."

“When we meet a person truly in need, do we see the face of God?”

“Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.”

“When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them...”

“Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.”

Source : "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Introduction, www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.

“In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.”

“It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds.”

Source : Kristian Birkeland (1908). “The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902-1903”

“A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.”

Source : SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

“The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to be Homo Sapiens' most formidable evolutionary task... It must also be clear that we will never quite learn how to learn, for since Homo Sapiens is self-changing, and since the more culture changes the faster it changes, man's methods and rate of learning will never quite keep pace with his need to learn.”