"No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately."

“That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.”

“A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.”

Source : "A Conversation with Benazir Bhutto". Interview with Richard N. Haass, www.cfr.org. August 15, 2007.

“Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?”

“Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.”

“But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.”

“If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need a great script.”

Source : "Screenwriter John Patrick Shanley on 'Ups and Downs,' Taking Moonstruck to Broadway and the Plays That Inspired Him". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”

Source : Selected Writings: "Poetry and Literature", 1941.