"Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches."

-- W. S. Di Piero

“I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.”

Source : "NBA player who made $30 million explains why he's quitting at age 26" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. February 25, 2015.
“One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.”

Source : Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.”

Source : "Mozart of film music". Interview With Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.
“Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.”
“Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker.”
“Most of the drug CEOs I know, they're not themselves - they're what people want them to be. It's pretty obvious of the different drug executives. They're old white men, very buttoned up. They're appropriate, so to speak. I'm a little bit more irreverent, and I'm not going to change just because I have this job.”
“The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson.”
“You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.”

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