"I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring and problematic omission for me. But I also wanted to write that character as a person, not just a gay person."

“To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.”

“I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.”

“Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.”

“It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.”

Source : William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

“All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.”

Source : Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

“You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.”

Source : "The Neutronium Alchemist". Book by Peter F. Hamilton, 1997.

“The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.”

“Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.”