"My baby does the hanky panky."

“I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.”

“I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.”

Source : "And the Winner Is: 'The Great Beauty' for Best Foreign Language Film". Interview with Sydney Levine, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2014.

“The drugs were the most important thing to me.”

“If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?”

“The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.”

Source : "Searchlights and Nightingales". Book by Robert Wilson Lynd, 1939.

“If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but it's not a good life either. Too often, the Democrats act like the Party of Lust, and the Republicans the Party of Greed. Both are deadly sins that eat at the soul.”

Source : Rod Dreher (2010). “Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots”, p.12, Crown

“Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.”

Source : Hermann Weyl (1968). “Gesammelte Abhandlungen”