"I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry."

“Necessity has no law.”

Source : Christopher Columbus, Robert Venables, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Modyford (Sir.), Nevil (of Jamaica.) (1800). “Interesting tracts, relating to the island of Jamaica: consisting of curious state-papers, councils of war, letters, petitions, narratives, &c. &c., which throw great light on the history of that island, from its conquest down to the year 1702”, p.44

“Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.”

“The guy says, "When you work where I work, by the time you get home, it's late. You've got to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night planning, planning, planning." And he's the same guy who is behind on his car payment!”

“Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The litmus test I always use for myself is: "Okay, if you won 20 million tomorrow in the lottery would you still being doing the same thing you are doing now with your life, Dough? The answer is "yes". I'm always very conscious of that.”

“If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.”

Source : "Marines Turned Soldiers". National Review Online, December 10, 2001.

“I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.”

“I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.”

Source : "A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think'". Interview with Saeed Kamali Dehghan, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

“Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder”