"I do think of myself as a taste-maker, yes, absolutely."

“I don't like zombie movies, they're just plain silly.”

“Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.”

“I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.”

“The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.”

“Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.”

Source : Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.221, Macmillan

“Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I had a breakthrough.' And I would believe-for a few months-that it was true. That she was back to stay. Maybe it was like having a rock star mother who was always on the road. Were there Benatar children? Did they sit around and wonder if their mom's Hell is for Children tour was going to be her last tour?”

“You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.”

“What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?”