"I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should."

“Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.”

Source : Susan Fletcher (2011). “Shadow Spinner”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

“What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.”

“Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.”

Source : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.1, Courier Corporation

“Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.”

“When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.”

“I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting puzzles together, which is basically what a film is.”

“It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.”

“My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.”

Source : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin