"However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will."

“There's a lot of people I know who have a lot of synthesisers and they don't really know anything about them, they know the specifications and everything, but they don't really get to know them.”

“I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.”

“My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.”

Source : Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

“You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.”

“Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”

“Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.”

Source : Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.272, Random House

“If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.”

“They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.”