"Do you realize how hard it is to keep your mind clear when somebody’s telling you to keep your mind clear?"

“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.”

Source : Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

“It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.”

“I'm guessing I'm your fake girlfriend? B. J. Asks, sighing. It's a miracle that he figured it out. He's not usually the best with things that aren't spelled out for him. Of course, sweetie, I say. I try not to think about the fact that I'm talking to B. J. Like we're in love. B. J. Is six-foot-four and 220 pounds. Not someone you want to think about being intimate with.”

“He who feeds you, controls you”

Source : "Burkina Faso's revolutionary hero Thomas Sankara to be exhumed" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2015.

“It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing up is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.”

Source : Kurt Koffka (1999). “Principles of Gestalt Psychology”, p.176, Psychology Press

“I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.”

“Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.”

“One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.”