"In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes."

“At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.”

Source : "Why I Wrote PGP". Personal Website, www.philzimmermann.com. June 1991 (updated 1999).

“Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.”

“Only poetry inspires poetry.”

“The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.”

“I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.”

“...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.”

“It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.”

“Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.”

Source : Isaac Barrow, John Tillotson, Abraham Hill (1700). “The works of the learned Isaac Barrow ...”, p.14