"If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'"

“Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that.”

“Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.”

Source : William H. Seward's memorandum to President Abraham Lincoln, April 1, 1861.

“When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something to come... the mystery is created in (their) minds, and by waiting for disaster, it is from their very minds that it occurs.”

“It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.”

Source : Earl Warren (1955). “The Law and the Future”

“It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.”

“Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.”

“Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective, even for very serious levels of depression. Physical exercise and self-help books based on CBT can also be useful, either alone or in combination with therapy. Reducing social and economic inequality would also reduce the incidence of depression.”

“I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.”

Source : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.