"I was so unhappy as a child in Washington I figured if I'm going to Yale, I am going to start a new life. I'll change my name to my middle name. So I was known for my four years at Yale as David Kramer."

“Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.”

“After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.”

“I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works. It's take a little from here, take a little from there.”

Source : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

“If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.”

Source : Philippa Gregory (2009). “The White Queen”, Simon and Schuster

“Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.”

“Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.”

“All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.”

“Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.”