"What lives in words is what words were needed to learn."

-- Jane Hirshfield

“No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.”
“Yelling doesn't get your point across, it only makes it louder.”
“You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.”

Source : Saul Bellow (2013). “Seize the Day”, p.70, Odyssey Editions
“Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.”

Source : "Pennsylvania Technology", Volume 1, No. 3, 1990.
“I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road or something that's been in the past.”
“There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.”
“If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. The drama around even sitting in the car and singing into a tape recorder that's as big as your hand - waiting until it's very quiet, doing your thing, and then playing it back and hoping you like it - is the same basic anatomy as when you're in the recording studio, really. Sometimes it's better that way because some of the pressure is off and you can pretend it's throwaway.”
“Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.”

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