"What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance."

“The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.”

“I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.”

“Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.”

Source : "Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2013.

“Just making sure the boys are okay is my priority in life, and that takes up all of my time right now.”

“I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.”

“People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices”

“COIL would very much like to see the creation of a newsgroup for minimal musics. We enjoy a wide spectrum of such musics, from La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, Arvo Part, Nurse With Wound's Solilique For Lilith,The Dream Syndicate (orig.concept not the newer group who plundered the name) to Synus, Earth and so on.and on and on. Some new so called ambient musics fall between genres and so between newsgroups: some of our own music has certainly been deeply inspired by and informed by such musics,from Partch to Subotnic.”

“I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.”

Source : "Rooney Mara: Playing with Fire". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. October 17, 2011.