"Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities."

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”

“It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.”

Source : Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.68, University Press of Kentucky

“the really damned not only like Hell, they feel loyal to it...”

“Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors. As far as physical fitness goes, today’s kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren’t outside.”

“I'm not saying the 1970s was a golden age - I don't believe such a thing exists in art . . . It would be like talking about a golden age of science. But it's true that those were slightly more ideological times, and the relevance of artists wasn't established by their CVs but by their work.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”

“The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time—- in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.”

“Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.”