"If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you."

“I like the idea that neither makes any romantic move until their philosophies are aligned.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“How little we realize things till they come upon us personally. I believe I have been a perfect fiend of indifference, even intolerance, of deaf people, and now it's me. Well, I am determined to become the most Delightful Deaf Old Lady that ever existed and I am practicing to that end ...”

Source : Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

“I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.”

Source : "Being Black and "Difficult" in Hollywood". Interview with Ishmael Reed, www.counterpunch.org. September 24, 2010.

“I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.”

“I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.”

“Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.”

“Bob Dylan is the Jew of all time.”

“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”