"If a concert film is an experience of the musicianship without critiquing it, then this, too, is dropping you into a world and letting you experience it."

“The simplest things give me ideas.”

“Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.”

“Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.”

Source : Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time”, p.8, A&C Black

“Captain Phillips is a knockout.”

“There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

“Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.”

Source : "Partisan Review: 50th Anniversary Edition", ed. William Philips, 1985.

“The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.”