"We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot of pilots, like wraparound windshields, but their initial solutions, when they realized average didn't work, were adjustable seats. How in the world did they not already have adjustable seats in their planes? We're looking for adjustable seats for education, for basic things that we can do."

“I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.”

“The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.”

“I really enjoy being an actor!”

“I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.”

Source : "Down from Cold Mountain". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2003.

“More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.”

“American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.”

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

“The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

“I don't do anything for Halloween. I carry Halloween inside of me.”

Source : "Graphic Novel Friday: Interview with Mike Mignola (Part Two)". Interview With Alex Carr, www.amazonbookreview.com. December 5, 2013.