"The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!"

“The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.”

“The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.”

“We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.”

“The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.”

“Men blaspheme what they do not know.”

“Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.”

Source : "Sunday Conversation: Igudesman & Joo". Interview with Irene Lacher, articles.latimes.com. October 09, 2011.

“Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion.”

Source : "The Ultimate Game Freak". Time Magazine Interview (Volume 154, No. 20), content.time.com. November 22, 1999.

“In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.”

Source : "The Fundamentalist Surge in Latin America" by Penny Lernoux in "The Christian Century" (p. 51), January 20, 1988.