"When you face challenges, ask yourself what is the lesson here? Focus on the lesson and don't complain about the test. Everything happens for a reason. Every person you meet, may teach you something - good or bad."

“Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it ... Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth -- reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute. Yesterday was blue, like smoke.”

“Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.”

“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”

“I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.”

“Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.”

Source : Richard Linklater (2008). “Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays”, p.162, Vintage

“The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.”

“Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”

“Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.”