Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work and protect your work. […] Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.
Christian Lund, Louisiana Literature festival, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 24 August 2012, Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 24 August 2012 source ↗
Yeah, anybody asks me about it, my advice was always, do not do it. In fact, it still is. Somebody just asked me last week, I was like, do not do it.
By the way, the guys with very high grades are not necessarily the people that are the most successful in later life. They may be the ones that can regurgitate gracefully, and they get very high grades. But if the guys that have to work for it and do not have such good grades can do something extra, and prove that they can perform, they may have a chance.
History was not written by men who predicted failure, who gave up their dreams, who abandoned their principles, who allowed their laziness to put their intelligence to sleep. If certain men at times were alone in seeking victory, they always had at their side the watchful spirit of their peoples, the faith and destiny of many generations.
Learn by doing, not learn first, then do. The way you discover what it is you like to do in life is by doing first, then learning about it.
The artist Gerhard Richter.
I would love to have a better sense of physical balance.
Collapse of the imagination.
Tramping through the woods in South Jersey in 1957 with my dog Bambi.
Clarity when I am writing.
Richard Ford, Amy Tan, J.K. Rowling, Werner Herzog, Wole Soyinka, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Search the directory for somebody in particular.