"What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war."

“To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.”

“Deja vu is one of the weirdest things that happens to me. It boggles my mind.”

“Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.”

Source : Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”

“The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

“Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.”

“Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.”

“Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.”

Source : "Roberta Smith & Jerry Saltz". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2013.

“Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.”

Source : "Under Fire". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1916.