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“The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations, when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people.”
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“I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.”
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“I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay.”
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“I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.”
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“Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.”
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“We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and – equally important – to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others.”
Source : Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.55, Vintage
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“Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.”
Source : Attributed in "Mathematics as grammar: 'Grammar' in Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics during the Middle Period" by A. A. B. Aspeitia, Indiana University, (p. 25), 2000.
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“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
Source : William S. Burroughs (1989). “The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs”, Penguin Group USA
