"Self-consciousness kills communication."

“My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.”

“A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.”

“I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.”

“My instincts are not comedic.”

Source : Interview With Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 24, 2002.

“Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no stronger word at the start. It announces a total contrast with what has gone before, and the reader is thereby primed for the change.”

“Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.”

Source : "Ontario Liberal leadership candidate Kathleen Wynne: 'I want to be the social justice premier'". www.thestar.com. January 15, 2013.

“I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.”

Source : Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.69, Pineapple Press Inc

“I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.”