"A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up."

“The Life Cube Burn is cathartic, fun, exciting, and even reverent. It's a spectacular opportunity to put a sense of finality to the event. And when those thousands of written "wish-sticks" inserted into the Cube from all kinds of people combine with the art and shared messaging from the write boards in a blaze of flame and a column of smoke and ashes, it becomes a communal and very spiritual moment.”

“The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.”

“You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.”

“The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.”

“It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.”

“Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact.”

“I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.”

Source : Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 4, 2012.