"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness."

“Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.”

“If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.”

“Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.”

“Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.”

“Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.109, Beacon Press

“I think it would be great to play a superhero. That will be one of my goals.”

Source : "Liana Liberato Talks ERASED, Relating to Her Character, Working with Aaron Eckhart, STUCK IN LOVE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 22, 2013.

“It is always your next move.”

“I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.”