"We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness."

“I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.”

“I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never... I love the digital world and I love electronica and after I shoot everything is digital, but I just... I don't know.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

“It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.”

“My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.”

Source : "Mary for Earth and Heaven" by William McLaughlin, p. 115-116, 2002.

“An actor without techies is a naked person standing in the dark trying to emote. A techie without actors is a person with marketable skills.”

“I want to see the two CEOs of RIM and [Apple CEO Steve] Jobs working together. The thought of this ménage à trois is absolutely hilarious.”

Source : "TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)" by Al Saracevic, Tom Abate, Ellen Lee, www.sfgate.com. June 6, 2006.

“I would imagine that what you try to do is to - is to be as sensitive to the environment that surrounds you as possible. As you see, my work has become increasingly global. My presence in the world has become increasingly global.”