"There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given"

“I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.”

“What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.210

“In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two worlds meet, and 'Edge of Tomorrow' is the perfect canvas to explore that.”

“Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.”

“The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 02, 2014

“All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.”

“I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.”

“I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.”