"Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain."

“I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.”

“I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there are forms of greatness, or at least of excellence, which "die and make no sign"; there are martyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake; heroes without the laurel, and conquerors without the triumph.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1834). “Philip Van Artvelde: A Dramatic Romance. In Two Parts”, p.41

“Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.”

“What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?”

“The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.”

Source : "Armando Iannucci: 'My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool'" by Dan Sabbagh, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2011.

“I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.”

“It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things...”

Source : Interview with Ryan Boudinot, www.pifmagazine.com. November, 1998.

“Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.”