"Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up."

“I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.”

Source : "Paul Allen: He talks Trail Blazers, Microsoft, 'The Social Network'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. April 19, 2011.

“We got no food, we got no jobs, our pets heads are falling off!”

“The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.”

“I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.12, Princeton University Press

“I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

“Right then, I wanted to go back in time and relive every moment with him. One more secret smile, one more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for. He’d come into my life too late, and now was leaving too soon. I remembered him telling he’d give up everything for me. He already had.”

“People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.”

“Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.”