"Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism."

“In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.”

“[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!”

“TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult.”

Source : "Interview with Ann Dowd, Star of ‘Compliance’". www.indiewire.com. August 17, 2012.

“When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.”

“If you stop building stars, which we never do, you wouldn't be in business.”

“Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.”

“A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.”

“You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.”