"The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win"

“But the two of them together, broke my heart. Olympia and Peter, those scenes... When they're kissing in their 20s and then kissing in their 70s, that's what it is. And they had never met five minutes before they shot those scenes.”

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... It is a moment of collapse... Only when all crutches and props are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest hope of security, does it become possible for us to experience an archetype that up till then had lain hidden... this is the archetype of meaning...”

“I’ve had to make the difficult decision to follow my intuition, and allow myself the space and time to explore my true purpose in life.”

Source : "Why I Walked Away From the NBA (Video)" by Larry Sanders, www.theplayerstribune.com. February 25, 2015.

“There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.”

“In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.”

“We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.”

“But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.”

“There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.”

Source : Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr