"...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures."

-- George Orwell

“The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.”
“No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class ...”
“Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.”

Source : "Home truths from the exile". Interview With Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2004.
“As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.”
“You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing.”
“No. I don't go through your things. I just come once in a while to make sure you're in one piece. I like knowing you're safe, asleep in your bed. I haven't stolen anything...”
“I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.”
“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.”

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