"I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else."

“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.”

“Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.”

Source : Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1727, Random House

“I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.”

Source : "Lynn Collins JOHN CARTER Set Visit Interview". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. February 9, 2012.

“This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.”

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”

Source : FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Dec 19, 2013

“The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.”

“Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield.”

“Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.”