"Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts. You get a little money, and all of a sudden you get confused about who you are and how you fit into that."

“I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.”

“We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.”

Source : Mark Doty (2002). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy”, p.7, Beacon Press

“I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.”

Source : Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.

“If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions out of the picture. It is almost impossible to be both a participant in the events and their observer, witness, interpreter.”

“Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.”

Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.311

“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.”

“Sister Simplicitie! Sing, sing a song to me,-- Sing me to sleep! Some legend low and long, Slow as the summer song Of the dull Deep.”

Source : Sydney Thompson Dobell, “Fragment Of A Sleep-Song”

“They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."”