"The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment in time."

“A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.”

“Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

“As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.”

“I also feel stronger than I ever have. I have confidence in my beliefs, my decisions and myself.”

“Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love?”

“Necessity, the mother of invention.”

Source : "The Twin Rivals". Book by George Farquhar, 1702.

“Sometimes you just have to say, “...I don't know what we are doing, let's just go and see what happens.” You have to embrace the experience itself, so that things you didn't intend to happen can make your work more authentic. And you have to hope that it works”

Source : "The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne Works Toward a More Personal Freakout" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. October 23, 2008.

“I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.”