"I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

“Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.”
“[On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents.”
“Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.16, Lulu.com
“Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.”
“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.3, Shambhala Publications
“Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.”
“Can I get a fork?; There were no utensils in medieval times, hence there ARE no utensils AT Medieval Times- would you like a refill on your Pepsi? ;So there were no utensils but there was Pepsi?; Dude, I got a lot of tables to wait”
“The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.”

Source : Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.379

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