"One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule."

“Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.”

“The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.”

Source : "Jill Soloway gave a pretty badass speech at the AFI last night" by Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2015.

“People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election”

“We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.”

Source : Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.48, Clarkson Potter

“One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.”

“He was a great man. And he was also me.”

“For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research ...To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting....”