“Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.”
“Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith in them so I would prefer to stay away.”
“Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.”
“I am your brother. I was supposed to be your brother before either of us was born. Karmic debt. It appears I was Vlad the Impaler or Genghis Khan in a past life.”
Source : Rob Thurman (2011). “Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.41, Penguin
“It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.”
“Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.”
“Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.”
“The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.”
Henry Theophilus Finck
