"Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance."

“What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living, most of the time. But this not knowing is precisely what I want to preserve. As readers, the closest way we can engage with a literary work is to protect its indeterminacy; to return ourselves and it to a place that precludes complete recognition. Really, when I’m reading, all I want is to stand amazed in front of an unknown object at odds with the world.”

“You dont have to eat a whole cheeseburger, just take a piece of the cheeseburger.”

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born”

Source : "Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, pp. 275-276, 1971.

“Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.”

Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.45, Da Capo Press

“When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all thoughts in their infinite variety are utterly without substance.”

“We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”

“You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

“Focus on the victory instead of on everything that could go wrong.”