"The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer."

“I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.”

“There's always that jumping off place when you're doing a sex scene when you can tell the crew's like, 'OK, it's comin'. At this point, it's actually not a big deal.”

“I think Republicans forgot how to communicate with the American people.”

Source : "What Republicans Must Do: Interview with Andrea Tantaros (Guest Interview)". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, themoderatevoice.com. January 24, 2009.

“If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future.”

Source : Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

“Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else...”

“History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.”

“Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.”

Source : Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.131, Penguin

“You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.”