"... someday we'll remember so much we'll build the biggest ***** steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up."

“Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able to disarm them and even, in some cases, to employ and enjoy them. This self-knowledge opens up a whole new world before us, rich in beauty and subtlety, and frees us not only to take the best out of it, but also to give it back the best of ourselves, and, in so doing, to fulfil our potential as human beings. I don't really think it's a choice.”

Source : FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Mar 05, 2013

“If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas”

“(Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me.”

“I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.”

“The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.”

Source : Louise Beebe Wilder (1990). “The fragrant path”, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

“Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.”

“We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.”