"Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul."

“I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.”

Source : Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Art Institute of Chicago, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (2006). “Charles Sheeler: across media”, University of California Press

“There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.”

“Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.”

“It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.”

“Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press

“Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.”

“And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.”

“One of the things people don't know about exorcism, is that you can't really use exorcism on things that are older than Christianity.”

Source : Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.