"I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it."

“Life is the love that reaches out, building bridges across gulfs of uncertainty to touch hands, hearts, and souls in the experience of union.”

“Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Diana Athill, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

“You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.”

Source : Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.53, Penguin

“Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them... So you have a right to sing the blues.”

“Government must guard against quasi-monopoly suppliers becoming too important to fail, and encourage competition through, for example, splitting up contracts to encourage (smaller businesses) to bid for work.”

Source : "Parliamentary watchdog: too often private sector contractors' ethical standards found wanting". www.opendemocracy.net. December 10, 2014.

“The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.”

“There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make”

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

“I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.”

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