"If I, in some small way can help people to see that there is this huge, incredible life on the other side of addiction, you know, I will feel accomplished in my job."

“When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?”

“You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.”

“Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

“I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?”

Source : Akira Kurosawa, Bert Cardullo (2008). “Akira Kurosawa: Interviews”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies that generates consciousness, just as tones from individual instruments produce the rich, complex, & seamless sounds of a symphony orchestra”

“Though some will try to deny it, I believe that every woman, at some time in her life, has had or will have the desire to pose nude.”

“The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.”

“Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 13, 2013