I love [my characters] from this god perspective because I am god as far as the characters are concerned, because I created them,” Tarantino said today.

Quentin Tarantino Cannes Press Conference June 11th, 2009
 

To compose music, all you have to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

Robert Schumann  May 17th, 2009
 

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence”

Kathleen Norris  May 30th, 2009
 

I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, _Dennis_, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God.

Dr. Jed Hill Malice (The Movie) June 11th, 2009
 

“A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.”

Madeleine L'Engle  June 8th, 2009
 

The artist is the one who does not look away.

Akira Kurosawa,Japanese film director, IMAGE Journal April 27th, 2009
 

The salvation of the human world lies nowhere else but in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human modesty, and in personal responsibility. Without a global revaluation in this sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better…and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed, whether it be ecological, social, demographic or a general breakdown of civilization, will be unavoidable.”

Vaclav Havel, Czech playwright, essayist, former dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–93) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003),  April 3rd, 2009