"I could stop and live carefully but that's ridiculous. I don't want to live carefully."

“For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.”

“I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world around them. I realized this is how I am all day; for me, unlike other people, there doesn't come a moment after a cup of coffee or a shower or whatever when I suddenly feel alive and awake and connected to the world. If it were always breakfast, I would be fine.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.85, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

“The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.”

Source : "Abroad At Home; Getting Even" by Anthony Lewis, www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1985.

“The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.”

“So why you pushin' it? Why you lyin' for? I know where you live, I know your folks, you was a sucka as a kid. Your persona's drama that you acquired in high school in actin' class, Your whole aura is plexiglass. What's-her-face told me you shot this kid last week in the park; That's a lie, you was in church with your moms.”

“Christ leads us to go out from ourselves more and more, to give ourselves and to serve others.”

“I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“Most of my films deal with people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. They want to change, but they need something to push them. I think it's mostly love that causes them to break their routines and move on.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com