I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

David Hume

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Minoru Yamasaki

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Helen Rowland

Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!

Helen Rowland

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

William Cowper

Law is always better than war.

Brian Eno

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

Martin Scorsese

Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Leon Trotsky

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Martin Luther

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche