"When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them."

“We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.”

“You will find scientists who will tell you — and they deeply believe it — that we’re quantifiable. We are knowable. That if I can take a high enough resolution picture of all of you — not just your outsides, but your genes, your DNA, all the way down to your atoms — I can know everything about you and everything that you will be. There are people who believe this. And what this tells me is, no. No! All the way down, to the bottom of our thoughts, there’s just more mystery.”

“The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach.”

Source : W. D. Snodgrass, “April Inventory”

“If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his voyage of discovery.”

“If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.”

Source : "Actress Toni Trucks Talks To S&A About ‘Made In Jersey,’ ‘Ruby Sparks’ & ‘Twilight’". Shadow and Act interview, www.indiewire.com. November 29, 2012.

“There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.”

Source : Dick Button (1955). “Dick Button on Skates”

“They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.”

“Friend, you're HOPELESSLY hooked!”