Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

I ransack public libraries and find them full of sunken treasure.

Virginia Woolf

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

Anthony Daniels

Things fall apart. But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

Robin Wasserman

One needn't be a crank to miss the scientific boat. The very paragon of genius, Albert Einstein, couldn't be persuaded to give quantum physics his unreserved endorsement. Here is Einstein's most frequently paraphrased statement of dissatisfaction with the theory: Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.

Albert Einstein, Letter to Max B

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.

Kurt Vonnegut

Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule

Friedrich Nietzsche

One failure is worth seven and a half successes.

Eli Khamarov

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

Sean Penn

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Mark Twain

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Joseph Joubert

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

Andrew Weil