"Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people."

“The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.”

“I hate the idea that cooking should be a celebration or a party.”

Source : "Cooking Isn’t Creative, and It Isn’t Easy". Interview with Alex Halberstadt, www.nytimes.com. October 11, 2012.

“I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.”

“We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious traditions point in the same direction, and now let's get moving together, doing something for peace.”

“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”

“Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.”

Source : Mark Rowlands (2010). “The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness”, p.65, Pegasus Books

“I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.”

Source : "Stella Maeve On 'Golden Boy' and Being Named After Stella Adler". Interview with Shelley Brown, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2013.

“To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is not so much a metaphor as a fact; to dance is to know oneself alone and to celebrate it.”