"Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life."

“Allowing suspects to indefinitely linger in our cells is, in fact, detrimental to our national security goals. If a suspect is proven to be a terrorist, for the sake of the victims and deterring any future attacks, he or she must be brought to justice. America has done this with Timothy McVeigh and hundreds of other terrorists.”

Source : "Due process, detention and defense". thehill.com. January 30, 2012.

“And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.”

“Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.”

“Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Political journalism”

“The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.”

“All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.”

“The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.”

Source : "Carlos Ghosn: What Japan Needs Is a Vision". Interview with Joyce Barnathan, www.bloomberg.com. December 16, 2002.

“All writing begins in the sea of experience.”

Source : Barry Lane (1993). “Writing as a road to self-discovery”, Writers Digest Books