"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."

“You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.”

Source : "Coach Salazar talks future of U.S. long distance, training Ritzenhein". Interview with David Epstein, www.si.com. November 5, 2010.

“Stories matter. Many stories matter.”

Source : "The danger of a single story". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2009.

“When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.”

“I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.”

“Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone- And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary stared with her mouth open as he rose up out of a shallow crouch and grinned at her. "If I made a joke about just dropping in," he said, "would you write me off as a cliché?”

“I can't believe I was a fat person for most of my life.”

Source : "Ricki Lake: ‘I Can’t Believe I Was Fat’" by Liz Mcneil, people.com. November 30, 2008.

“I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.”

“There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'”