"In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device."

“Bravery isn't what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.”

“There's something exciting and incredibly liberating for an artist to finish something Friday night and the world hears it Friday night instead of eight months later after marketing people and all those ***** get involved.”

“I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.”

Source : "Eyes On Penelope Cruz". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 10, 2012.

“I think when I'm cast in things, people take that as part of the package that I would like to have some sort of creative control and they know what I'm capable of, so they let me come on the day with my own ammunition.”

“St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.”

Source : Thomas Keating (2014). “Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit”, p.5, Lantern Books

“At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.”

“It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.”

“Children are harmed more by our apathy than our error.”