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“[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.”
Source : Tom Wolfe (1999). “The electric kool-aid acid test”, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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“I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.”
Source : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.14, Macmillan
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“Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.”
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“Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.”
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“When you are in the future, the past looks different.”
Source : "Sir Humphrey Reveals His Dusty Springfield Side" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004. 
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“How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.”
Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 2008.
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“[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was one! It was all a dream!”
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“I think what you study and what you believe in has an influence in the way you live.”
Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
