"It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you."

“In the land of ideas, you are always renting.”

Source : "Steven Soderbergh on Why He Really Quit Movies". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. July 7, 2014.

“The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.”

“Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.”

“The conservatism is extraordinary to me; just compare the way they dress to the way their parents dress. There are still no tattoos or piercings, which is interesting to me. Why does everyone who lives in one place dress alike, look alike, eat the same thing, and decorate the same way?”

“For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.”

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”

Source : Kiran Desai (2006). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.208, Atlantic Monthly Press

“You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.”

“Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.”