"Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential."

“Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.”

Source : Edmund Leach (1989). “Claude Levi-Strauss”, p.102, University of Chicago Press

“I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.”

“Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact that much of our life is spent buying and discarding, and buying again, things that are not good. Some of us long to have at least something, somewhere, which will give us harmony and a sense of durability—I won’t say permanence, but durability—things that, through the years, become more and more beautiful, things we can leave to our children.”

“The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.”

Source : "'Argo' Screenwriter Explains the CIA Secrets and Surprises Behind the Film". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 15, 2012.

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -”

“Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.”

“In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are something of an inevitable concomitant of post-traditional social forms. Life plans are the substantial content of the reflexively organised trajectory of the self. Life-planning is a means of preparing a course of future actions mobilised in terms of the self's biography. We may also speak here of the existence of personal calendars or life-plan calendars, in relation to which the personal time of the lifespan is handled.”

“When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.”

Source : John Keble (1870). “Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance”, p.6