"When you're tan, you feel better about yourself"

“I'm so happy, I can hardly spit.”

“I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.”

Source : "Q & A With Homeland's Abu Nazir: Navid Negahban on Israeli and Persian Cuisine, Looking for Hummus in L.A., Shimon Peres' Facebook Page + Getting Detained by the Real Guys". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. September 25, 2012.

“I’ve never heard that the sexual act requires any particular intelligence. From what I’ve observed, many stupid people are easily able to produce children.”

“We live in a time of record breaking crisis but it's also a time of record breaking vision”

“By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): 'men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.'”

Source : Gerolamo Cardano (2015). “The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability”, p.57, Courier Dover Publications

“Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.”

“I see something new in 'Gosford Park' every time I watch it.”

“Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.”