"We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search."

-- Blaise Pascal

“A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.”
“What nobody tells people who are beginnersâ€¦ is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and itâ€™s just not that good. Itâ€™s trying to be good, it has potential, but itâ€™s notâ€¦ your taste is why your work disappoints youâ€¦ We know our work doesnâ€™t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through thisâ€¦ It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.”
“Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.”
“... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is at all sensitive, for people visit upon the postman all their first annoyance at receiving a couple of bills when they looked for a love-letter, and if a packet is insufficiently stamped they hand over the pennies as though to a despicable bandit, too outrageous to be denied, too groveling to be feared.”
“At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.”
“You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys.”
“I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.”
“I tell my coach all the time "Hey, listen, coach. You know the hardest person on me isn't you, right? It's me." I'm the hardest person on myself, my biggest critic, always pushing. But there are days when I have to tell myself, "Relax, breathe, you're too stressed out." When it's no longer fun, when it's no longer something you can tolerate, that's when you have to take a break.”

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