Jeff > Jeff's Quotes

“Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida”
― Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief

“The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.”
― Susan Orlean , The Orchid Thief

“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.”
― Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy

“Let him who has not a single speck of migration to blot his family escutcheon cast the first stone...if you didn't migrate then your father did, and if your father didn't need to move from place to place, then it was only because your grandfather before him had no choice but to go, put his old life behind him in search of the bread that his own land denied him...”
― José Saramago, The Notebook

“All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

“The most convincing works tend to be those in which the thinking is inseparable from the doing.”
― David Salle, How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art

“The late sculptor Ken Price put it best: “Nothing I can say is going to improve how it looks.”
― David Salle, How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art