"When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something."

“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (1979). “The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics”, p.9, Beacon Press

“Sometimes I wonder if all my friends are insane.”

Source : Tom Angleberger (2012). “The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee (Origami Yoda #3)”, p.173, Abrams

“I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.”

“Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples”

“I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride.”

“Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.”

Source : "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

“If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.”