"I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character."

“It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.”

“I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.”

“...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.”

“In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong.”

“A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.”

“Genius is initiative on fire.”

“The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.”

Source : Statement on October 29, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 141, 1962.

“There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.”

Source : "Model Petra Nemcova Recovering After Tsunami". abcnews.go.com. May 17, 2005.