"Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that."

“In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.”

“Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?”

Source : "Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?" by Walter Dean Myers, www.nytimes.com. March 15, 2014.

“The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.”

Source : "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

“No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.”

“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”

“Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!”

“I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?”

Source : "Extreme Pornography Law in the UK". Personal Website, stallman.org. February 19, 2010.

“If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?”