Fast, cheap and good … pick two. If it’s fast and cheap, it won’t be good. If it’s cheap and good, it won’t be fast. If it’s fast and good, it won’t be cheap.

(Jim Jarmusch)

The biggest thing that frustrates me in the world is I just want to say to everybody: You know that thing above your neck is not decoration. You have to use it.

(Sean Penn, actor, in Esquire)

You’ve got an emergency. Who would you call at four in the morning, knowing that they would get out of bed and do whatever they could to help you? Those are your friends. That reduces your Christmas-card list a lot.

(Piers Morgan, TV Host, in Esquire Magazine)

If you write for a living, you need an unquenchable delight in the actual work of writing; otherwise, you will get burned out on whatever you’re writing about, no matter how much you love it.

(Mick LaSalle)