"Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected."

“Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.”

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

“Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.”

“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”

“I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.”

“I don't think the rich or the poor are to blame, .. I think we are all to blame.”

“It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.”

“You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.”

Source : "'A feeling of realistic optimism': An interview with Nadine Gordimer". Salmagundi, 113, 1997.