"A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind."

“The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.”

“What is this thing that has us chewing at our own selves, grating ourselves against our own sharp sieve? It is the act of stepping back. It is the act of separating, and judging. It takes only one because the one becomes two.”

Source : Bonnie Friedman (2014). “Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life”, p.2, Harper Collins

“The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat”

“More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation”

“Apology is not for the faint of heart, but then, neither is life.”

Source : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.240, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

“I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker.”

“You have to fight for your dream, but you also have to feel fortunate for what you have.”

Source : "Spanish staying power" by Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2008.

“If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking and dirty. They aren't really. It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after. Those early movies, we had drugs, which you weren't supposed to show. You weren't supposed to shoot up. We would make fun of hippies. I think that we were punk before there was punk.”