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“The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.”
Source : Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”
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“When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of film school because I didn't. I was just putting them together somehow as the spirit moved me, following my nose, thinking I was brilliant.”
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“Nourishment means a quality of life; consistency in the way we treat ourselves.”
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“Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy”
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“The car is the cigarette of the future”
Source : "Billionaire cities: who could buy yours?" by Francesca Perry, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2014. 
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“So thoughtless awareness is the first beautiful state you have to achieve. That will give you peace and a witness state to enjoy the drama of life, to enjoy the different varieties of people, while you will be growing within yourself.”
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“For the millennium [New Year's Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I'm choosing option B”
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“It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the "realists"!”
Source : Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.116, Vintage
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“Devaluations are never easy.”
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“I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?”
