"I don't do a lot of guest shots on television."

“The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.”

“Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different”

“All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.”

Source : John Banville (2011). “Shroud”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

“Good music always defeats bad luck”

Source : Jack Vance (1983). “Suldrun's Garden”

“Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.”

Source : Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston (2011). “Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

“I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.”

Source : "'The Sopranos' Aida Turturro talks about fighting hunger and her hit show". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.

“The dead have need of fairy tales too.”

Source : Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.47, Atlantic Books Ltd

“Every visible and invisible creature is an appearance of God.”