"And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?"

“What we mean by integration is not to be with them (whites) but to have what they have.”

“I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.”

“To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life”

“Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.”

“I never really think of something in terms of what not to do. It's always what's appealing or what's cool.”

Source : "Elysium' Interview: Neill Blomkamp's Team On Creating A New Sci-Fi World". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, screencrush.com. April 10, 2013.

“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.”

Source : "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

“Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.”

“It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.”