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“I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.”
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“How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?”
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“I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.”
Source : "Real-life romance" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004. 
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“Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.”
Source : Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.110, Courier Corporation
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“Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.”
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“Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.”
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“Sometimes I feel ashamed at my lack of interest in all the new techniques of modern filmmaking, but I prefer to work with as little equipment as possible. If I have a good lens and a steady camera, that's all I need.”
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“When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?”
Source : "He'll turn his hand to anything". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.
