"The reason I love you is not because you are special like nobody I've ever met before. It is because nobody has made me feel more special than anybody ever did before you."

“Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.”

“Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.”

“She tossed her towel on her dresser and turned to the bed where shed left her PJs. Only it wasn't just her PJs on the bed anymore. Lucas, eyes wide, sat on the foot of her bed, about four feet from where she stood completely naked. She squealed. He laughed. She dashed for the towel. Once she had it around her, she glared from a still grinning Lucas to the door. "I'm killing Della!" He laughed again. "I'm afraid I might have to protect her for this one.”

“No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.”

“A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.”

Source : Kwame Anthony Appiah (2010). “The Ethics of Identity”, p.130, Princeton University Press

“If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.”

“A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it”

“I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.”