"I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read."

-- Jonathan Carroll

“I had heard everything, Larry gonna knock me out, he gonna beat me, this and that. I got so sick of that. I had a little talk with myself in my bedroom and I said, Don't think about getting in the ring with Larry Holmes, I mean, Don't forget Larry Holmes is getting in the ring with you. You're champ for so many years. And just do what you're best at. What I am best at was not letting anybody have their way with me in the ring.”
“People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.”
“I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can't be pushed ahead of our own understanding.”
“I like being the girl nobody can have.”
“When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen.”
“Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.”
“I was never much of a bass player.”
“I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2007.

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