"Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe ... that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens."

-- Joseph Brodsky

#Grief Quotes #Believe Quotes #Reading Quotes

“When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.”
“I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.
“I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.”
“I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.”
“The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.”
“Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint or a pile of rubble.”

Source : Lucia Perillo (2012). “Inseminating the Elephant”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press
“Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.”
“After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.”

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