"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

“And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?”

“We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.”

“I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.”

“Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.”

“I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.”

Source : "Q&A – Steve Zahn Says A Perfect Getaway Forced Him to Pay Attention". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

“Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.”

“London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.”

Source : Alec Waugh (2011). “The Sugar Islands: A Collection of Pieces Written About the West Indies Between 1928 and 1953”, p.208, A&C Black

“The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.”

Source : "The World Doesn't Need Another Rhyming Tooth Fairy Story: A Conversation with Children's Book Agent Andrea Brown". Interview with Anna Olswanger, www.underdown.org. 1998.