"The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best."

“You monkeys only think you're running things.”

Source : "'Ayahuasca is changing global environmental consciousness'". Interview with David Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2016.

“I am in politics because I have a strong belief in the equal worth of every child.”

“It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.”

“After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.”

“I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness.”

Source : "Broken Genius : The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age" by Joel N. Shurkin, (Ch. 7, p. 125), 2006.

“I know with me, you really have to, like, pound me over the head to say, 'I like you. I really like you' to get me to see it. I think if you're too passive, you just fall into that friend role. And that's hard to break out of.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.”

Source : Alan Dean Foster (2014). “To the Vanishing Point”, p.184, Open Road Media

“Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.”