"I'm not politically active, but I'm saying [that] you can open up people's understanding of themselves and others with play."

“Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

“Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.”

“Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.”

“I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.”

“When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.”

“If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.”

“The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.”

Source : John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.11, Harvard Business Press

“When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.”