"I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years."

“There's still people that do it poorly... and people that do it very, very well. I think there's still an incredible spectrum. I guess there's something that's appealing in it, in that everyone on some level is a DJ. But people still go to clubs, and there's still... it is interesting - with everyone having an iPod now - when music is so personalised and things like Pandora and making your own playlists, there's something really powerful about a room full of people all dancing to the same song.”

“I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging.”

“Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.”

Source : Ira Levin (1985). “Three by Ira Levin”, Random House (NY)

“Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.”

“We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.”

“Adventure is the essence of life.”

Source : "U.S. balloonists forced down shortly after launch". www.cnn.com. January 9, 1998.

“I've been pretty fortunate.”

“When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.”

Source : "The Secret Life of Brian". TV Movie, January 1, 2007.