"It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act."

“When it comes to music, I'm definitely thinking [about] what I would like to hear.”

Source : "Toro Y Moi Talks New Album, Underneath the Pine". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. November 23, 2010.

“Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.”

“We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or the disastrous failures of those who later thought they were acting in his name.”

“Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”

“The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.”

“I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.”

“Hope sinks a world of imagination.”

Source : Amanda McKittrick Ros (2012). “Irene Iddesleigh”, p.124, The Floating Press

“Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool”