"The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life."

“Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.”

“Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet”

“So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having. Where I would usually backspace, I stop and say, "You know what? This is important, that I say how I feel and don't sugarcoat it, and don't avoid it." In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.”

Source : "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

“I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it.”

“An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.”

“If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.”

Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

“I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.”

Source : "Rachel Bilson Lucky Magazine April 2012: I Don’t Like ‘Slutty Dresses’" By Jessica Misener, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2012.

“In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.”