"If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory."

“Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.”

“It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.”

“The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.”

“There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know or don't want to know about it, with a lot of documentation.”

Source : Source: artsmania.ca

“There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.”

Source : "Director Paul Greengrass Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 11, 2010.

“Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy”

“As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.”

“I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.”