Michael Barenbaum

“That’s one thing about being creative. Don’t be too set in your own ways. Be suggestible from time to time. Allow unexpected influences (like Torr) to shift your ideas. You can always come back to your own convictions if they’re real. But be a tourist in other perspectives.”
― Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Creative Quest

“By that token, you might forget an event, but you can never go back to living as you did before its hidden influence was applied upon you.”
― Gregory Maguire, Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker

“I’m a son of tens of thousands of families A younger brother of tens of thousands of withered lives A big brother to tens of thousands of little children Who are homeless and live in constant hunger”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Well, science and religion are not competitors, they’re two different languages trying to tell the same story. There’s room in this world”
― Dan Brown, Origin