"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."

“If I have a girlfriend, I don’t bring her to flaunt her. She doesn’t get to reap the benefits of me being famous.”

“The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.273, Wesleyan University Press

“Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.”

Source : Philip Levine, “Everything”

“I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.”

Source : "'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' author Maria Semple talks about her new book". Interview with Molly Driscoll, www.csmonitor.com. October 3, 2012.

“A religion shapes the world of its believers by identifying questions that need answers and providing answers that people 'know' to be true. ­”

“What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!”

Source : George Sterling, “The Testimony Of The Suns”

“What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.”

“Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it.”