Jose Ortega y Gasset

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.