"It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story."

-- Erin Morgenstern

#Spring Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I guess what I get excited about when I'm thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and the gray areas of human behavior and existence.”

Source : "Being Nina Simone". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.
“The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and indignation of every spectator whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice. The compositions of ancient genius, so many of which have irretrievably perished, might surely have been excepted from the wreck of idolatry, for the amusement and instruction of succeeding ages.”
“It turns out a VAT - a value-added tax - is a very easy tax to collect and a very hard tax to evade. It's a really good idea. It was invented about 60 years ago in France, of course. Because they're so good at taxing. They had a business tax that was easy to evade, and the head of the French IRS invented this value-added tax, which is very hard to evade.”
“the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.”
“My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They say, '0.7.' I said, 'What's normal?' They say, '0.6.'; I said, 'One-tenth? You're telling me I'm one-tenth higher than the average man? Re-test that - you must have caught me on a low day.'”
“I like to direct for the big screen.”
“Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.”
“I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.”

Source : Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch, High Museum of Art (2001). “After The Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch”, p.38, Yale University Press

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