"I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories."

“I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.”

“No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.”

“Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately.”

“My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.”

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

“I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film.”

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

“Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.”

Source : FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Aug 08, 2011

“People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.”

Source : Ernest Gellner (1979). “Legitimation of Belief”, p.99, CUP Archive

“To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World had achieved by the time of the Han, the Gupta, and the Hellenistic age. The fact is that the Amerindian high cultures were a human modality of their own, and those Spaniards who came among them first would have had the sensation, if they had ever heard of such literature, of treading in a world of imaginative science fiction. But it was real, and the Amerindian achievements deserve all our sympathy and praise.”

Source : Joseph Needham, Gwei-Djen Lu (1985). “Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances: Listening Once Again”, p.64, World Scientific