"I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."

“Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.”

Source : Scilla Elworthy (1997). “Power and Sex: Developing Inner Strength to Deal with the World”, Element Books Limited

“Yes. I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.”

Source : "Irwin Winkler: A Film Producer's Producer". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 8, 2007.

“... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.”

“I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.”

“Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.”

“The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.”

Source : "Zola Jesus Is A Romantic". Interview with Leila Brillson, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2011.

“There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.”

“An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.”