"One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics"

“history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.”

“But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you wont fear that failure.”

“He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.”

Source : Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

“I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.”

“We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease.”

Source : "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

“We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.”

“To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.”