Debra Banks

“If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.”
― Aristotle, Metaphysics

“Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.”
― Alan Watts

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”
― Robert Henri

“It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.”
― Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter