"As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga."

“I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this, "OK, if one more person talks, everybody is going to Hell."”

“The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on”

“If you sit in on a film class with students, their big complaint is "That's not like real life." They don't realize that they don't really want to watch real life. They don't want to sit and watch a security camera. There's a strong gravity in all of us as viewers - even in myself now and then - to want to see real life depicted. But you're looking for it in the wrong places. It's in little allegories, in something removed.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com

“I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?”

Source : Robert Silverberg (2004). “Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades”, Subterranean

“I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here.”

“If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.”

“I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.”

Source : Sharon Olds (2012). “Stag's Leap”, p.74, Random House

“We can be confident that action which is in accord with a few basic beliefs cannot be wrong and can at least testify to the values we will need to cultivate. These are the beliefs that the human race is a family that has inherited a place on the earth in common, that its members have an obligation to work toward sharing it so that none is deprived of the elementary needs for life, and that all have a responsibility to leave it undegraded for those who follow.”