"In this business, if you don`t have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed"

“I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.”

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

“My God, I wish we had [the] 9th Australian Division with us this morning.”

“My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.”

Source : "Anchee Min on Her Memoir, 'The Cooked Seed'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. May 11, 2013.

“We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.”

“We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other”

“Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow”

“As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.”

“Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.”

Source : Richard Rorty (1998). “Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers”, p.8, Cambridge University Press