"It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions of one or two people and say, "That's wrong!""

“Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.”

“People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'”

“People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

“Your direction is a result of your perception.”

Source : Todd Duncan (2002). “High Trust Selling: Make More Money in Less Time with Less Stress”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

“Photojournalism is neither photography or journalism. It has its function but it's not where I see myself: the press is for me just a means for photographing, for material – not for telling the truth.”

“We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.”

“I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.”

Source : "Grant Bowler of Lost, Ugly Betty". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. February 5, 2009.

“Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?”

Source : Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.60, Oxford University Press