"Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should."

“Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”

“I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.”

“Hope is only the love of life.”

“Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.”

“I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like the strings, the chords, and the notes and the melodies and stuff. And then you throw on a topic that everyone can relate to. That's gonna be real music.”

“If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.”

“If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.”

Source : "Leila Josefowicz: The thrill of the new". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2010.

“Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.”