"Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady."

“Directing is like cooking, it's like cuisine. You cannot make a great dish with bad ingredients. I have great actors, and I'm putting them together. That's all I'm doing.”

“I do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music.”

“We don't want wars even when we win.”

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

Source : Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

“That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.”

Source : "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

“That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.”

“[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.”

Source : Arnold Edwin Needham, Sarah Fielding (1943). “The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding”

“Everything is nicer if you feel you're in love.”