Evanton Library Quotes

#1. I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of raw carrots.

Daniel Handler

#2. Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

Joseph Campbell

#3. The love that I got when I finally did start performing again was all that I needed to just get back out there. Just to know that people were out there and they missed me. That made all the difference.

Jazmine Sullivan

#4. You can fulfill your whole life in one hour of inner seeing.

John De Ruiter

#5. The bedlamite little hats in which American women have tried to out-lunatic each other for the past four years prove conclusively we don't dress to please anyone. We're just docile sheep who accept what's given us.

Beatrice Fairfax

#6. Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Willem De Kooning

#7. And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful-
how the mind clings to the road it knows,
rushing through crossroads, sticking
like lint to the familiar.

Mary Oliver

#8. Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#9. Every single soul is a poem, written on the back of God's hand

Michael Franti