"Easy writing makes hard reading."

“I'm beginning to appreciate the value of naps. Naps are wonderful, aren't they? Sometimes now I have to take a nap to get ready for bed.”

“Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.”

“The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.”

“I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed.”

Source : "Reprise: Diane Wilson - An American Hero". Interview with Kelpie Wilson, www.kelpiewilson.com. March 28, 2006.

“What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?”

Source : Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, Knopf

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”

“The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly.”

“The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.”