"What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty."

“I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.”

Source : "Just don't mention Jane Austen". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2001.

“The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.”

“On the value of blind shots to golf course design.”

“If you only say one prayer in a day make it Thank You.”

“Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.”

“As dancers, especially for myself, personally, dance constitutes a lot of the conversation that I have. While I'm not a ridiculous wordsmith and I can't clearly verbalize the things that I'm feeling sometimes, I'd say that I can emote how I feel by dancing, 100% of the time, and fearlessly at that.”

“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.”

Source : Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999). “Politics of the Very Worst”, Semiotext

“There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.”

Source : Source: onlineathens.com