"Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect."

-- Tom Stoppard

“My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of my imagination were answerable to me. If I wished for a man to levitate; to enter another's story by rowboat or by intoning a sentence or by performing a shadow-puppet play; if I wanted him to become a swarm of intelligent elementary particles and enter the Internet and travel into the past and far into the future, it was so.”
“I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.”
“To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.”
“This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.”
“It's difficult to keep in touch with someone when you're moving around all the time. I've decided that you can have it all, but you can't have it all, all of the time.”
“Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.”
“True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.”
“People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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