"I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?"

“I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.”

“I just liked the feeling of being on stage.”

“I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.”

“It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good to us as though we knew a thousand reasons. I pray God to hold you quiet and patient and uncomplaining, and help you bear the weight of this seemingly unintelligible sorrow. I hope you will remember that this is the only world in which a Christian can suffer, and suffer patiently and meekly. We cannot suffer by and by. God helps us to glorify Him now, when we can.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

“Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.”

“He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.”

“Today, journalists more than any other cohort of professionals, are responsible for the confusion that surrounds power and its criminality in contemporary society. As Janet Malcolm said in another context, 'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.'”

“I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.