"Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors."

“By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them....”

“All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.”

“I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.”

“My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.”

Source : "FNL's Adrianne Palicki on learning to be a badass for Red Dawn and Wonder Woman". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2012.

“there are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ...”

“If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

“By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.”

“I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.”