"What I would like, I think, is to live a while longer. But not again."

“I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.”

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.186, David R. Godine Publisher

“If it were really the case that terrorists "hate us for our freedoms," we'd be getting more popular with Al Qaeda every month.”

“And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.”

“The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.”

“Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.”

Source : Betty Edwards (1999). “The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”, Tarcher

“Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.”

“There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.”

“Strike fast, strike hard, strike often.”