"You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work."

-- Phyllis Gotlieb

“Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.”
“Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.”
“I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.”

Source : "Q&A: Inside the Mind of the World's Top Chess Player". Interview with Aditi Malhotra, blogs.wsj.com. April 3, 2013.
“There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.”

Source : 1979 Causality in Economics.
“God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways”
“It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.”
“Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.”

Source : "The Origins of the Sexual Impulse" by Colin Wilson, (p. 75), 1963.

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