"My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal."

“In the Quran it is said that from the tears shed by this great angel [Michael] over the sins of the faithful, cherubim are formed.”

“Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.”

“Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong, simple, natural sentences.”

“I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.”

“Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.”

Source : William Stringfellow (2006). “Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers

“Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.”

Source : Henry Demarest Lloyd (1894). “Wealth Against Commonwealth”, p.2, Burned Books Publishing

“I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.”

“The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.”