"I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters."

“One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.”

Source : Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”

“Potential has a shelf life.”

“Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility.”

“Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.”

“You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.”

Source : Colson Whitehead (2007). “The Colossus of New York”, p.4, Anchor

“Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.”

“You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.”

Source : "Virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro Takes Ukulele Seriously". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Jennifer Ludden, www.npr.org. January 1, 2011.