"When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little."

“The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.”

“If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.”

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

“I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.”

“Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds.... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress.”

“My mother tells me I do not chew my food enough; she says I am making it harder for my body to get the essential nutrients it needs. If she were here, I would remind her that I am eating a blueberry Pop-Tart.”

Source : Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.193, Penguin UK

“It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want”

“The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.”

“When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.”

Source : Mark Van Doren (1968). “Autobiography”