"Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul."

“It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.”

Source : Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press

“If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don’t have any nose,”

“Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.”

“Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.”

Source : "'Gossip Girl' Creator Reveals Reality of 'Young Adult'" by Cecily von Ziegesar, www.mtv.com. December 12, 2011.

“When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one,”

“My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.”

“I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.”

“I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.”