"What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees"

“Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!'”

“As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.”

“Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere. -Nana Komatsu”

“Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.”

“Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.”

Source : "Michelle, top woman in a macho world" by Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2006.

“I went to film school, so I certainly know how to make things quickly and cheaply. But at the same time, I have the experience of working with Steve Starkey for three years. I watched him produce some gigantic movies.”

Source : "FUTURES: Lauren Miller On Giving Her Hubby Seth Rogen a Run For His Money With Sex Comedy ‘For a Good Time, Call…’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 31, 2012.

“The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.”

“Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef.”