"All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter."

“The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

“It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!”

“I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.”

“Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.”

“You learn from mistakes.”

“No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.”

“Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.”

“It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me.”

Source : "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.