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“Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal”
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“Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method...”
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“I was joking the other day about how my real life feels like a TV show, and my TV life feels real - because, to be on Thursday nights on NBC, which is what I grew up with, has been such a big part of inspiring me. To be part of that tradition is really completely surreal, and I'm so grateful.”
Source : Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 15, 2011. 
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“Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.”
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“It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.”
Source : Margaret Culkin Banning (1936). “Letters to Susan”
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“I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.”
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“Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.”
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“no one had experiences any more, only traumas.”
Source : Beryl Bainbridge (1967). “A Weekend with Claud”
