"I have blocks of time where I'm working intently on something."

-- David Plotz

“Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...”
“When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
“Today, its expensive prescription medications burdening seniors on fixed incomes with thousands of dollars in yearly out-of-pocket costs.”
“Anarchism is "stateless socialism.”

Source : "Stateless Socialism: Anarchism". "The Political Philosophy of Bakunin" by G.P. Maximoff, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1953.
“I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and after reading them I feel as Senator Brandegee felt after a celebrated dinner in Washington. "I feel," he said, "as if I had been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and had tea with the Mad Hatter."”
“But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work”
“Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in what love might bring, Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.”

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