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“There’s a writer for you,†he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.†[narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.”
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“It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.”
Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
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“The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit.”
Source : "No Impact Man: The Documentary". www.imdb.com. 2009. 
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“Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.”
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“A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.”
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“There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can’t accept the truth of each other.”
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“Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.”
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“I think we're at the end of all the revivals. People would forget about punk for a while, and then a magazine would do a special issue on the 10th anniversary of punk, for example, and bring it back. But now you can find collectors or friends with the same interest through the Internet at any time, so nothing is ever really gone. Everything is always there.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
