"Programming is an explanatory activity."

“The sole reason to serve as a Christian is Jesus, yet He is easily lost in the various activities that consume our days.”

“Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.”

Source : "Author Explains Tales Of New Vision, New Life". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 10, 2009.

“In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.”

Source : "Who Killed Childhood?". www.city-journal.org. Spring 2004.

“My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day and learn that? It feels like something you should just do involuntarily, like swallowing or blinking, but now I have to work on it. It feels so forced. I mean, I know I went to a good school, and people tell me I'm smart and creative, but I don't KNOW that. I don't know how to make myself feel that.”

“As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com

“The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.”

“Phil Ramone and Quincy Jones were very close. Phil Ramone was one of the greatest record producers of all time. I don't know if they talk about him enough in the film, but he produced [Frank] Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, all of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney - Phil Ramone was one of the major record engineers and producers.”

“Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!”