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“I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.”
Source : "Saga and Y: The Last Man writer Brian K. Vaughan talks about making comics his own way". Interview with Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. April 11, 2012. 
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“I know Vikings isnt really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.”
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“Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.”
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“But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple.”
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“I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.”
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“Each training session I'm getting better and better. I have no other duties now, no worries, it's all about training, eating and sleeping. I have a lot more time and can put a lot more effort into training. I'm feeling better every day. As long as I'm feeling myself I'm definitely in no doubt I can go to the Olympics and win.”
Source : "Usain Bolt: 'Legends have come before me, but this is my time'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2012.
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“The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.”
Source : Tim Lebbon (2003). “Fears Unnamed”
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“Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation--the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.”
Source : Mark Crispin Miller (1988). “Boxed in: The Culture of TV”, p.11, Northwestern University Press
