"Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply."

"There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation."

"What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?"

"I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process."

"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."

"The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny."

"My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson."

"In the tapestry of human existence, every trial adds depth to the design. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."