"Matter can never give you joy. It's the Spirit that gives you joy."

“It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.”

“Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.”

“People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.”

“Technically, the weight of pain is the weight of shadow.”

Source : Carl Phillips (2014). “The Rest of Love: Poems”, p.40, Macmillan

“Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.”

Source : "Gregg: U.S Needs To Find The Path To Fiscal Responsibility". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 16, 2010.

“You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.”

“The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And that language is a trap, that a dark evolutionary force has created languages to limit human thought. That writers are overrated fools. That all religions come from ancient comic writers. And the ultimate goal of comics is same as the purpose of humanity – to break free from language.”

“I think squats is a generic thing - you can do squats with anything. That's the great thing about it. As long as you get in a safe position to do it.”