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“Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.”
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“Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.”
Source : Heinrich Böll (1965). “The clown”, Avon Books
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“The best way to live is to live like there is no tomorrow.”
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“Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.”
Source : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.119, Atlantic Monthly Press
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“I don't know how I ever lived before You are my life, my destiny Oh my darling, I love you so You mean everything to me”
Source : Song: You Mean Everything to Me
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“We're hopeful that Russia will choose to play a constructive role in supporting ceasefires through their own Astana talks, but also, ultimately, through Geneva. And if we can achieve ceasefires in zones of stabilization in Syria, then I believe we will have the conditions to begin a useful political process.”
Source : "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. April 9, 2017. 
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“I do or die, but I never cancel out.”
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“I, in the end, make art for myself.”
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“You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at the outcome. But when you have a discussion about whether or not we can assist people who are suffering, then suddenly we come very, you know, cost-conscious.”
Source : Conversation with Bill Moyers, June 20, 2014.
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“We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment to materialism. We cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”
Source : "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard C. Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.
