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“The essence of the Way is detachment.”
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“One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.”
Source : Source: espn.go.com
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“For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and anxiety.”
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“Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.”
Source : "A Conversation with Andrew Bird: Crafting Music and Chicago Memories". Interview with Sarah Brooks, thirdcoastreview.com. Setember 2, 2016. 
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“American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman's relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it's still a story about your relatives visiting.”
Source : "The Super Psyche of Comic Book Shaman Grant Morrison". Interview with Gavin Edwards, www.playboy.com. April 18, 2012.
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“A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.”
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“There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.”
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“Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.”
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“Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.”
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“Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.”
Source : Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”
