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“Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.”
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“I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.”
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“Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar.”
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“It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.”
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“A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.”
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“I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
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“A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.”
Source : David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.6, Vintage
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“It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.”
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“I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.”
Source : Cate Marvin (2007). “Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems”
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“The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to comment on its all-encompassing nature. Turn the page and here are new characters and new situations, but the war remains... Isn't that how life has been for us for over a decade?”
