"All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won’t remember it, and you’ll learn nothing from it, and you’ll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice."

“I'm very comfortable in the storm.”

“The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.”

“Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is,”

Source : "Emotional Frank Thomas speech a Hall of Fame highlight" by Daniel Brown, www.mercurynews.com. July 27, 2014.

“Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this because is so organic to the process.”

Source : "Interview: Kebler Mendonça Filho on his film ‘Neighboring Sounds’". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2013.

“I was naughty. I wasn't bad. Bad is hurting people, doing evil. Naughty is not hurting anyone. Naughty is being amusing.”

“I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy”

“Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French and master playing on clay, who knows? But I'll give it a shot.”

“Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.”