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“It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me.”
Source : "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016. 
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“I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.”
Source : "'Tuscan Sun' author on Italy's pleasures". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2010.
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“Football's always easier when you've got the ball.”
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“Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?”
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“How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.”
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“I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.”
Source : Henri Rousseau, Roger Shattuck, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France) (1985). “Henri Rousseau: essays”, Museum of Modern Art ; Boston : Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books
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“Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can’t easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).”
Source : Twitter post from Mar 21, 2014
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“All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.”
