"It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors... Jesus, these amateur directors can get deals for anything. Another comic book? Oh, very good."

“Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.”

“True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.”

“Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly fuel and excellent fertilizer, but also the complete destruction of physical historical data. On the other hand, the custom of embalming and mummification is most praiseworthy and highly to be recommended.”

“Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.”

Source : "The Marriage of Love & Power". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.”

Source : Malidoma Patrice Somé (1995). “Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman”, Penguin Books

“You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.”

“Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.”

“I put my foot in my mouth every time I'm interviewed.”