"The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences."

“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”

Source : Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.

“I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.”

“Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.”

“Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.”

“Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.”

“There's no escape. I'm God's only man.”

Source : "Fictional character: Travis Bickle". "Taxi Driver", www.imdb.com. 1976.

“We don't believe we are too sexy for our hair.”

Source : "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

“I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.”