"I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust acts. Thus, physical sensitivity and self-interest are the authors of all justice."

“I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.”

Source : E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.160, Random House

“Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still the outsider who snuck into the party. I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.”

“Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.”

Source : "The Rommel Papers". Book edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart. Chapter 11: "The Initiative Passes," p. 244, 1953.

“When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.”

“Practice makes polish and polish makes money.”

“It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act.”

“Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (2013). “Cowley's Essays”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

“Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core.”