"Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work."

“I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole."”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.”

Source : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

“I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country”

“Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.”

Source : "Consciousness and Language". Book by John Searle, 2002.

“I have been a stranger in a foreign land.”

“If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.”

“The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.”

Source : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press

“It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.”