"Characters in Hollywood movies encounter a lot of car chases. Characters in novels rarely wash their hands or do their laundry. And in the work of moral psychologists, people deliberate and reflect a lot. They deliberate, one sometimes feels, whenever they perform an action, and certainly whenever they act for good reasons."

“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”

“And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes.”

“When God promises, He's not saying, I'll try. He means, I can and I will.”

Source : James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.55, Moody Publishers

“I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.”

“There are only two types of music.good and bad.”

“I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.”

Source : "And the Winner Is: 'The Great Beauty' for Best Foreign Language Film". Interview with Sydney Levine, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2014.

“We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time. Those who know how to search, find and make the connections will succeed. Those who rely on static knowledge and skills alone will fail.”

“What use was money if you didn't have the time to enjoy it?”