"I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index."

“A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.”

“I find day after day of sunshine boring.”

Source : "Sarah Sanguin Carter: Esquire's Summer Hostess". Interview with Steve Ciccarelli, www.esquire.com. June 06, 2011.

“How can the unknown merit reverence?”

“If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.”

“The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.”

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.”

“In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.”

“I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted to teach Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. I hadn't read it in twenty-five years. I was surprised to find how much I drew from that book. Stole from that book, learned from that book about writing. I had forgotten and there it was. Morrison has called that text faulted. I cannot see how.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net