"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

“Never deter from your path of determination and commitment. There may be obstacle but never fret. These obstacles are to make you more strong and committed to spread your wings of determination so that you can fly higher and higher to touch the sky of achievement.”

“On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.”

“You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.”

“I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.”

Source : "Interview with Director Richard Donner". Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. May 1, 2001.

“Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.”

“I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon”

“As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.”

Source : Source: www.bookbrowse.com

“I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.”