"When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love."

“Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.”

“As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.”

“I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.”

“The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer.  If I take my hand and slap you, it might sting you because these digits are separated.  But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.”

“I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I love tapping. People don't really get to see that as much, but I love doing that.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com

“You've got to trust [that] your own compass will lead you away from whatever mistakes were made.”

Source : "Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.

“I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.”

Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.89, Simon and Schuster