"My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home."

“You never fail until you stop trying.”

“My father's from Pakistan and he has been a secularist all his life. In the Pakistani context, there's no messing with religion. There's been a battle for the soul of Pakistan since 1947 and I have grown up without any illusions about the dangers of religious power in the context of a country like Pakistan.”

“There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice.”

“Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.”

“I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.”

Source : "Jonathan Demme Discusses 'Journeys' & The Magic Of Neil Young" by Jeff Otto, www.indiewire.com. June 26, 2012.

“The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.”

“All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.”

Source : Ralph Venning (1652). “Mysteries and revelations: Or, The explication and application of several extra-essential and borrowed names, allusions, and metaphors in the Scripture”

“Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.”