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“What if she figures out you're not very smart?”
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“I've been a lifetime Democrat, and I'm re-registering this year as an independent. It's strictly [because] my party, that I've been affiliated with all these years, doesn't stand for anything that I stand for anymore. They've lost any sensibility that they had, and they've allowed all the kooks in, so I'm going independent.”
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“I would drive through the desert, and there's this one spot in the desert that, every time I drove through it, I would get crazy ideas. I would either sing into the cell phone recorder or I would sing into a DAT machine.”
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“Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country”
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“Rome wasn't built in a day, and neit'er was Syracuse.”
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“Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments  its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.”
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“People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.”
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“Keep scribbling! Something will happen.”
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“When all mental activity around who you think you are is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled with its latest self-definition. In that moment, there is only silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize absolute fulfilment: the truth of who you are.”
Source : "The Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance". Book by Gangaji, 2007.
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“An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps”
Source : Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.36, Penguin
