"love at any age takes everything you've got."

-- Florida Scott-Maxwell

“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.”
“Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man; but it is the enemy of greatness”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.”
“On the strength of strong public support, I will have (the postal reform bills) passed within this session,”
“Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty of the fans of the genre has been such a life-changing influence for me that I wanted to do everything I possibly could to help give something back to them.”
“The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.”

Source : "The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World". "Placemakers" with Rebecca Sheir, www.slate.com. November 7, 2016.
“Michel. In my dreams, you come and get me. You take me by the hand and you lead me away. This life is too much for me to bear. I look at the key and I long for you and for the past. For the innocent, easy days before the war. I know now my scars will never heal. I hope my son will forgive me. He will never know. No one will ever know.”

Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.261, Macmillan
“Gorgeous, glowing rays of light...This was what true beauty and goodness looked like-- a spectral, luminescent gathering of beings so pure it hurt to look directly at them, like the most glorious eclipse, or maybe Heaven itself.”

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