"I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts."

“I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.”

“I was a very shy child.”

“I had always enjoyed the title of Commander-in-Chief until I was informed ... that the only forces that cannot be transferred from Washington without my express permission are the members of the Marine Corps Band. Those are the only forces I have. I want it announced that we propose to hold the White House against all odds at least for some time to come.”

“The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ...”

Source : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Loudness is impotence.”

“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”

“Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.”

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.19, Penguin