"I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again."

-- Chaim Potok

“I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.”
“Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.”
“My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping.”

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“We need to give credence to the nonsexual relationships...the idea of having significant others instead of a significant other.”
“Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and it is the appointed vehicle of every good to man.”
“So dogma, doctrine, unexamined assumptions, that's what it is to be sharing that, the hippies shadow, no way of grounding it to reality. It's where we're just cut off from reality unless we can argue, we can substantiate, we can justify, we can convince each other.”
“You always have your complaints about your own music. I never finish a track because I decided to finish. It's like, I just finish a track because I'm tired of it, you know? So you could be finishing songs forever, I think, if you are quite a perfectionist.”

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“Youâ€™re a terrible cook. That Iâ€™ll grant you. You canâ€™t hold your liquor, either. And you have questionable taste in men. So no, youâ€™re not perfect.â€ His voice sank to a husky whisper, and his gaze dropped to her mouth. â€œBut youâ€™re close. Close enough to restore a manâ€™s faith in miracles.”

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