"I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here - I would hate that."

“Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”

“The telling of stories creates the real world.”

“For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity: for me to give the person a better life, to realize where not to be, and to see what could be even better than being with that person I love.”

“When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.”

Source : "Strange Bedfellows: Koch and London Critics Heap Praise on ‘King’s Speech’" by Melena Ryzik, carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com. December 21, 2010.

“Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. ... Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.”

“We aspire to make artisanal tortillas on an industrial scale.”

Source : "Chipotle’s Quest to Develop a Better Tortilla" by Stephanie Strom, www.nytimes.com. June 15, 2015.

“When a married person uses ***** or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his or her purity, but also compromises the spouse's purity. As a church, we need to teach a higher standard than abstinence. We need to preach a righteous lifestyle.”

“In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians. Sherman himself acknowledged that only 20% of the destruction inflicted by his invasion was inflicted on military objectives. Civilian non-combatants, essentially innocents, suffered 80% of the losses.”