"Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone."

“Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.”

Source : Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, p.8

“I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.”

“Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.”

“Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.”

“I live a bourgeois life.”

“Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.”

“I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.”

“I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.”