"Acting requires focus, too, but acting doesn't, you might say, demand focus. When you're in the ring you don't even have to think about focus because the danger is so imminent. Imminent. You train and you prepare and then the adrenaline kicks in and drives you into focusing intensely. You'd better focus, right? Or else you'll make your exit on a stretcher."

“The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.”

“Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.”

Source : Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.366, Oxford University Press

“Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.”

“An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.”

“I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.”

“A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.”

Source : "The Fish Can Sing". Book by Halldór Laxness, transl. by Magnus Magnusson, 2008.

“Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.”

“Making a decision to sell is the most difficult thing we do.”