"The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions"

“If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.”

“I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.”

“Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.”

Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, tv.avclub.com. November 6, 2008.

“There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.”

“The best revenge in the world is success.”

“My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.”

Source : "Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music". Book by Sergei Bertensson, p. 381, 2002.

“Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.”

“Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest.”