"When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake."

-- R. C. Sproul

“Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.”
“Some days when I start to talk, my voice isnt strong. But then it warms up.”
“Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.”
“My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.”

Source : Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.
“The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.”
“I'd like to apologize in advance for anything I may say or do that could be construed as offensive as I slowly go nuts!”
“A widespread taste for ***** means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.”
“I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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