"I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism."

“In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.”

“When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.”

Source : "10 years after SARS outbreak, WHO boss shares lessons learned". Interview with Helen Branswell, toronto.ctvnews.ca. March 5, 2013.

“Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Oct 20, 2013

“A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help.”

“The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!”

Source : William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.160

“I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.”

“I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.”

“If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.”