"I write [music] as a sow piddles."

“The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period....”

“A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?”

“Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others which is felt even before they open their mouths. Only the person who has also a gift for affection can have a true sense of humor. A good laugh is a sign of love; it may be said to give us a glimpse of, or a first lesson in, the love that God bears for every one of us.”

Source : Karl Rahner (1973). “Belief today: three theological meditations”, Sheed & Ward Ltd

“One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.”

“The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.”

“I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.”

Source : "Rebecca Romijn Gives Birth to Twin Girls". www.foxnews.com. January 5, 2009.

“O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!”

“Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.”

Source : Colin Fletcher (1972). “The Man who Walked Through Time”, Vintage