"We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush."

“I believe if I should die, And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie Cold, dead, and dumb to all the world contains, The folded orbs would open at thy breath, And from its exile in the Isles of Death Life would come gladly back along my veins.”

Source : Mary Ashley Townsend, Ralph Lee Woodward (2001). “Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend”, p.9, University of Alabama Press

“You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.”

“Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.”

“There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.”

“I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.”

“Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.”

“I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too.”

“When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand”

Source : "Tommy Mottola: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 3013.