"Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in oneâ€™s own castle."

-- Franz Kafka

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“All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.”
“A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart.”
“If it's a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it's hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.”
“Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.”
“For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.”
“Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set of laws for governing an empire, prescribed death for anyone who harbored a fugitive or otherwise helped a slave to escape. The relationship between the law and bondage goes back even farther: Indeed, the oldest extant legal documents don't concern the sale of land, houses, or even animals, but slaves.”
“One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.”

Source : Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.
“Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.”

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