"To look ahead one must learn to look back."

“I'd tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.”

Source : "Echo Chamber: Bat for Lashes" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 6, 2009.

“Little kids learn to walk by falling. They fall forward and eventually they start catching themselves. All walking is controlled falling. It’s the same with success. You learn by failing. Success is just controlled failing.”

“Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.”

“Killing prostitutes had become an obsession with me. I could not stop myself. It was like a drug.”

“I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.”

Source : "Berenice Abbott: the photography trailblazer who had supersight" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2015.

“I want to use my position of influence to change the laws of the land to the benefit of the women of Trinidad and Tobago, divide the economic pie more evenly and appoint more women to positions within the government.”

“Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful.”

“So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books