"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress."

“When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.”

“There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.”

“The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.”

“Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.”

“But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling right. If it's moving through tunnels, I ask myself, what is it like to move through tunnels?”

Source : "Brian Selznick: how Scorsese's Hugo drew inspiration from his magical book". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2012.

“I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”

Source : Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.205, Penguin

“When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.”

“The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.”