"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree."

“The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.”

“On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.”

“Film-making is a physically hard job.”

Source : "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”

Source : Oliver Sacks (2011). “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”, p.127, Pan Macmillan

“I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.”

“While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.”

“What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.”

“Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.”

Source : "Clean Air Anthem" by Ronnie Citron-Fink, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2012.