"My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts."

“Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.”

“When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to do with us. The grace is in the separation, the distance, the sense of a self-sustaining way of life.”

Source : Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.81, Princeton Architectural Press

“I think that Congress's ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.”

Source : U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 11, 2006.

“Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do,”

“If I ever wanted to pick someone's brain, like Larry David would obviously be the most relevant.”

“It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.”

Source : Naomi Levy (2007). “Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration”, p.13, Knopf

“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.”

“With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.”

Source : Guy Debord (1998). “Comments on the Society of the Spectacle”, p.16, Verso