"Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)"

“Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer.”

“Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same .. there's a sense of beauty and a sense of dignity and a sense of living life to the full that infects everyone.”

“Before you have kids, you just have much less to worry about. It doesn't feel that way, but it's true. Once you have kids, your focus has to change, I think, at least to raise kids right. You can't just focus on yourself; it's too hard.”

Source : "Christopher Gorham of Covert Affairs: Overcoming Failure and Having Kids". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.”

Source : Denis Donoghue (1994). “The old moderns: essays on literature and theory”, Knopf

“Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.”

“My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world.”

“It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.”

Source : Peter Heller (2014). “The Painter: A novel”, p.58, Vintage

“Any color works if you push it to the extreme.”