"Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes."

-- Nikki Giovanni

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“I've had the opportunity to play the drug dealer who gets gang-raped, and I'm like, "For what reason? Doing it just to do it? To just show people that I can be sexy or dark?" I don't want to do something just to make that point. It needs to happen organically, and I'm really confident it will. I'm a pretty patient person, and I'll wait until we find the right stuff.”
“Hamas hides among unwitting civilians, who have no way of controlling its activities. This fact does not give Israel the right to kill innocent non-combatants, not even unintentionally. Besides, murder is not 'unintentional' when you know it is inevitable.”
“The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.”
“Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.”

Source : "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.
“I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.”
“I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.”
“I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Beauty and Sadness”, p.114, Vintage
“Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.”

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