"Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment."

“I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.”

“Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.”

“I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.”

Source : "Why writers must embrace social media, no matter the genre" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

“When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.”

“There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or you might end up with something that sounds metronomic.”

“Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the camera, takes its place as the most satisfactory medium for registering objective life in all its aspects, and from this comes its documental value. If to this is added sensibility and understanding and, above all, a clear orientation as to the place it should have in the field of historical development, I believe that the result is something worthy of a place in social production, to which we should all contribute.”

“I realize that for many New Yorkers, this is the first time you've heard my name, and you don't know much about me. Over these next two years you will get to know me, but more importantly, I will get to know you.”

Source : Press Conference With New York Governor David Paterson And Senator-Designate Kirsten Gillibrand, Albany, NY, votesmart.org. January 23, 2009.

“Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”