"If you don't dance, for heaven's sake, you cannot aspire. You do not lift up from this earth."

“Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding river. More often than not, you can only see to the next bend, and only when you reach that next turn can you see more.”

“What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?”

Source : Mark Doty, “Visitation”

“The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.”

Source : 1974 Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms (rev edn).

“I have my good and bad days, but when it's tough I just push through it.”

“My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its complex wonder, having the courage to live fully, to love wastefully and to be all that each of us can be and that it will express itself in our national life in more earth centered, justice enhancing and humane ways.”

“What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!”

“I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.”

“There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people.”

Source : Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com