"Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!"

-- Flannery O'Connor

“I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.”
“Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser...”
“Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far as chasing him down is concerned.”
“Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.”
“Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!”
“It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all this time.”

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“If you expect your life to be full of ups and downs, then your mind will be much more peaceful.”
“I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy without experiment is merely mathematical exercise, while experiment without mathematics will neither sufficiently discipline the mind or sufficiently extend our knowledge in a subject like physics.”

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