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“I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.”
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“Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.”
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“To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.”
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“I think it's incredibly cute when a guy can't dance and doesn't care about how crazy he looks.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“Have I done more for some today ? Than some have done for me ? If a person can answer yes at the end of a day, then that person has had a good day.”
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“Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.”
Source : John Barth (1984). “The Friday book: essays and other nonfiction”, Putnam Pub Group
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“Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all...”
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“When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough."”
