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“Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached. I mean, I wouldn't really say that he's detached ultimately. But he does write as a scientist, and so he describes things very - in great detail, very carefully.”
Source : "Translator Behind Elena Ferrante Novels Says Her Job Is To Be An 'Enabler'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, capeandislands.org. February 20, 2016. 
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“So when it came to making the movie I guess I had a really good sense innately of what it was that makes Halloween really great. In that it is a holiday for everybody now. When I was a kid I felt like it was mostly for kids, maybe that's just the way it always is when you're a kid, but I think now more than ever it's for grown ups too. When I was a kid I don't think there were quite as many sexy adult costumes and we definitely didn't have all these Spirit Halloween stores that pop up every October.”
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“At times, to make progress, you end up offending people. And people were offended by many things I have done over the years. But I did what I felt was right, especially from an art and creative point of view.”
Source : "Here's The Autobiography Of The Controversial CEO American Apparel Just Fired" by Dov Charney, www.businessinsider.com. June 19, 2014.
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“The precondition to freedom is security.”
Source : "Blast from my past: 'What next?' Rolling Stone". Interview with Amanda Griscom, thomaspmbarnett.squarespace.com. July 8-22, 2004.
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“Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture.”
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“I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four." He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.”
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“Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.”
Source : Maurice George Kendall, Alan Stuart (1977). “The Advanced Theory of Statistics: Distribution theory”, Hafner Press
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“I start where the last man left off.”
