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“I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone.”
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“If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land...”
Source : Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”
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“You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.”
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“I played a lot of serious parts in a lot of TV movies and early miniseries but what happens is that you get sort of locked into "Oh no, he's a serious actor." Well, I was a serious actor for nine years or 10 years and then I get into comedy and everybody said, "Oh no, he's funny. He can do comedy," and then all of a sudden, you're just a comedy guy.”
Source : "Barry Bostwick on Rocky Horror, Spin City, and playing rich assholes". Interview with Joel Keller, tv.avclub.com. June 6, 2015. 
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“A print book is really a kind of tree zombie.”
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“My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.”
Source : Source: www.npr.org
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“In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.”
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“Well, keep your mother off the streets and I won't f**k her!”
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“We were excited to win, staying undefeated is just the icing.”
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“I even love the smell of books.”
Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.4, Ballantine Books
