"You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it."

“Breaking Away' was a great experience. It's the kind of movie that engenders a lot of goodwill from people.”

“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.”

Source : Wystan Hugh Auden (2011). “The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue”, p.105, Princeton University Press

“There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.”

“The more a man knows, the more he forgives.”

“There can be no peace on earth as long as there is war in love.”

“Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.”

Source : "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

“Love is being accepting of all of their flaws.”

Source : "Haley Pullos Interview: Maranda Pleasant". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.”

Source : Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.35, Manchester University Press