"I can say that I am, by nature, optimistic."

“If you don't know what it is you want - and I mean specifically - then you won't even know when you have it.”

“I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's also often a mistake.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.

“When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.”

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

“If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.”

Source : "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

“Less opinion, more perspective.”

Source : "19 Lessons Of Beauty, Self-Love And Compassion From Lil B's Life-Changing MIT Lecture". Lil B's lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), www.mtv.com. November 22, 2014.

“Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.”

“He really just wanted to go about his business. I would put Eddie Murray in the same category as Andre Dawson. He would like to kid around with the press and (be surly), but he was a total professional. I see why he is a Hall of Famer. I am just glad I had the pleasure of playing for Eddie (Murray) for one year.”

“It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.”