"Growing up, I was always really shy about my body."

“Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.”

“The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.”

“In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.”

Source : "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015.

“When I arrive at our training ground at Borussia Dortmund, everybody could hear just that a few seconds before I can actually be seen. Everybody knows it's me. I love to hear the machine working.”

“Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”

Source : Glenway Wescott (1940). “The pilgrim hawk: a love story”

“But our trials need not be spiritually fatal. They need not take us from our covenants or from the household of God.”

“I don't know why it is, but I just love soul music and all that old country stuff. I guess somehow my heart mixed them both together as I made my albums.”

“The winds are out of breath.”