"The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface."

“Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.”

“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.”

“Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.”

Source : Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.175, Macmillan

“But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.”

“Sometimes you get caught up living something that's not true. The people around you, the people you're involved with, are not the right people.”

“In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.”

Source : Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.24, Random House

“I think I average one good sulk a week.”

“We put forth a very strong number. It's always hard to know, it's impossible to know what numbers are out there.”