"Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting."

“I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.”

Source : Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1942). “Never Come Morning”, p.295, Seven Stories Press

“Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.”

“We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.”

“You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”

“I am the vampire at my own veins.”

“I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.”

“Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.”

Source : Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.9, Modern Library