"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

“John Huston is more of a creative director than most.”

Source : Interview with Joel Keller, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.

“I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.”

“I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.”

Source : "Dr Dre will see you now ... but you won't hear Detox until 2011" by Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2010.

“Im from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.”

“Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.”

Source : Barbara Olson (2003). “The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

“Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.”

“But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.”

Source : Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.300, Univ of California Press

“Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.”