"A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater."

“When's the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable?”

Source : "Living Like an Olympian" by David B. Agus, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

“Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.”

“Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.”

Source : Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

“God take care of him, because he's my past and my future”

“My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.”

“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”

“Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.”

Source : Aldous Huxley (1992). “Ape and Essence: A Novel”, p.51, Ivan R. Dee