"Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic"

“I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.”

“It's an eclectic film and I think we served the novel really well. And we had a great cast who worked for free. Everyone read it and said, I'm in, from Nick [Nolte] to Albert [Finney] to Omar [Epps] to Barbara [Hershey]. We really had fun and shot it in a very short time. I think the subject matter is more topical today, more to the point, than it was 30 years ago, when it concerned the Vietnam War.”

“Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn’t miss for the world.”

“Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.”

“I really think you stare at yourself and you see things.”

“In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.”

Source : Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

“Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.”

Source : Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

“Green and black go well together, dont they?”