“ Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a thousand men or to leave it be, or whether a particular dandelion should or should not be plucked. For a Weaver, to think was to think aesthetically. To act - to Weave - was to bring about more pleasing patterns. They did not eat physical food: they seemed to subsist on the appreciation of beauty. China Mieville Author
“ Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking. Grenville Kleiser Author
“ I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina. Suzanne Farrell Ballerina
“ Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute. Seneca The Younger Philosopher
“ I think the biggest single issue is income inequity and what this is doing to the good old "American dream." This and corporatism - this delusional idea that "shareholder value" outweighs everything else. George Saunders Writer
“ I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist