"Workers are on the streets today with a clear message to Europe's leaders. There is a great danger that workers are going to pay the price for the reckless speculation that took place in financial markets."

“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.”

“Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.”

“The heart of the problem is a problem with the heart.”

“But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable.”

Source : Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Amy & Isabelle”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

“To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.”

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

“Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.”

“Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.”

“A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.”