"It's not about the money for me."

“Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks”

“The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.”

“Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community for example, another country or historical period. ... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.”

“I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.”

Source : Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Cromartie, Ethics and Public Policy Center (Washington, D.C.) (1987). “Piety and politics: evangelicals and fundamentalists confront the world”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

“I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.”

“Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.”

“I actually barely ever go on the Internet.”

Source : "Evan Goldberg Says Shane Black Was Once In Line To Direct ‘The Green Hornet’" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. January 18, 2011.

“I worked because I could control it.”