"I am going to the bad place, as is my wont."

--

David Rakoff

“Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.”
“The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying. Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.”
“The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.”
“Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.”
“Vince couldn't stop talking, spilling thoughts that had obviously churned inside him for years. "We could've stopped the spread of the disease a lot better than we've been able to cure the disease... Thought the magical cure would save them in the end. But if we wait any longer we'll run out of people to save.”
“I hate my smile - I think I look like an absolute wally when I smile, I really do.”

Source : Source: www.refinery29.com
“It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.”

Source : "How language transformed humanity". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.
“Men, also, have in them enormous capacities that they have to repress and fear in themselves, living up to this obsolete and brutal man-eating, bear-killing, Ernest Hemingway, crewcut Prussian sadistic, napalm all the children in Vietnam, bang-bang you're dead, image of masculinity, the image of all powerful masculine superiority that is absolute.”

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