"I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility..."

“The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.”

“I think that the way that Steve Jobs sought after love was to create products that people loved. And when people loved his products, in turn they - he felt like they loved him.”

“Democrats have simply lost the country.”

“I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

“A man who loves good food has a way of making it gravitate toward his kitchen.”

“I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.”

“Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.”

“All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”