"If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim."

“A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.”

“Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.”

“Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.”

Source : "Nothing Special: Living Zen". Book by Charlotte Joko Beck, 1993.

“The opportunity to use a computer is great when it is used as one component, or when someone is working on his or her own sounds and approaches. I think it actually has the same restrictions as using the piano or any other instrument in [a traditional] way.”

“Success is never final, but failure can be.”

“When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, 'Well, it's men hurting other men.' When we hear that blacks are the greater victims, we consider it racist to say, 'Well, it's blacks hurting blacks.' The victim is a victim no matter who the perpetrator was.”

“I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.”

“The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.”