"An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the best of circumstances, the relationship is clear enough so that the mathematician can submit his or her reasoning to an informal checklist, passing from step to step with the easy confidence the steps are small enough so that he cannot be embarrassed nor she tripped up."

-- David Berlinski

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“I'm more into kind of real stories, psychological movies.”
“The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.”

Source : Gladys Hasty Carroll (1957). “Sing Out the Glory”
“I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.”
“Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.”
“The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.”
“I don't travel anywhere without the PS3 and XBox. There's nothing better to do on long bus trips while on tour.”
“The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.”

Source : The Independent, July 21, 1989.
“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”

Source : Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

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