No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology.

Steven Levitan

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

Ai Weiwei

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

P.C. Hodgell

The friends I made have slipped and strayed. And who's the one that cares A trifling lot and best forgot - And that's my tale, and theirs. Then if my 'friendships break and bend There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.'

Dorothy Parker, The Leal

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

Johnny Vegas

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

Rick Mercer

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

Benicio Del Toro

Our whole society is instantaneous.

Bryan Cranston

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

Jim Barksdale

No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

Thomas Carlyle

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

Alexander Herzen

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Bertrand Russell