"I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place."

“Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.”

Source : George John Whyte-Melville (1899). “Works”

“Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people”

“You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.”

“Hell is full of good intentions.”

“I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.”

Source : "Married showrunner Andrew Gurland is the guy laughing at the funeral". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. September 10, 2015.

“Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

“Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.”

“Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.”