"There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better."

“I realize that for many New Yorkers, this is the first time you've heard my name, and you don't know much about me. Over these next two years you will get to know me, but more importantly, I will get to know you.”

Source : Press Conference With New York Governor David Paterson And Senator-Designate Kirsten Gillibrand, Albany, NY, votesmart.org. January 23, 2009.

“Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.”

“Learn to Control your emotions or they will control you,”

“The scene at a certain time was definitely boys; those huge warehouses were kind of violent parties, even. I think people in your immediate community made a nightlife scene that actually did break down gender roles and were along different lines of identity that had to do with race and experience in the '90s, rather than gender.”

Source : "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

“On Darjeeling, I was on set every day and I acted as the second unit director and a producer on that film. I was there throughout the whole process. On Moonrise Kingdom, I showed up for one day.”

“I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.”

“I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.”

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

“he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.”

Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt