"The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!"

-- Frederick Franck

#Ego Quotes #Saint Quotes #May Quotes

“Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.”
“But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.”

Source : Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
“My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.”
“Throughout history, ideas need patrons.”

Source : "Covert Operations" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2010.
“We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.”
“In my case, I am improvising with existing sound files. I use an MSP patch that a friend of mine made, and you have to improvise when you use this patch. I don't use a guitar in performance anymore.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They've been earned. They've been fought for - so there's no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it's to do with what's inside you. You can't obsess about the outside.”
“Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”

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