"There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old."

“Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.”

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

“On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.”

“New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people.”

“All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.”

Source : Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.96, A&C Black

“You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression.”

“The End of a Picture is Always an End of a Life.”

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

“I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise) to exploit workers (and the land): "Nothing personal," they say as they load their property onto the ship bound for the Middle Passage, "but a man's gotta turn a dime.”

“OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life.”