"Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant."

“I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.”

“No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.”

“I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.”

Source : Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

“It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because hes been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And thats very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.”

Source : "'Harry Potter' Finale: Rupert Grint, David Heyman, Phelps Twins Give First Look at CineEurope" by Scott Roxborough, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 30, 2011.

“When things are going well, I hate to quit.”

“Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as dreadful places can be, they're still just places; and no matter how awful ghosts might seem, they're just dead people. I always thought that the most terrifying things anyone could ever think up were the things living people came up with.”

“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”

“Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.”