"I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible."

“We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier it is for us, as long as they stay out of our way. Whether it’s through religiously-imposed ignorance, spectator sports, crack, pot, coke, heroin—or the consumer insecurities imposed by the almighty Tube—it’s fine with us as long as it keeps sheep more docile and easily contained. That doesn’t mean we have to subject ourselves to it. Military generals don’t step out on the missile range and volunteer as targets for the latest prototype weapons”

“You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.”

Source : Catharine A. MacKinnon (1996). “Only Words”, p.3, Harvard University Press

“You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.”

“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.”

“On the third day after Jesus' own death, He came out of the grave to give the world a sign it cannot deny. For a man to predict His own death and resurrection was something only God could do.”

“It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders.”

“We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.”

Source : Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, William Rodney Allen (2006). “The Coen Brothers: Interviews”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.”