“I sometimes think God is a s--t — and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a s--t.”

“T. S. Eliot said it is no business of the artist to think. I presume he meant it's only the business of the artist to feel, but I like the notion of there being a mind behind the fiction that I read and that I write.”

“I think we may have found 2014's Garry's Incident. Ho-lee sh*t.”

“The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house.”

“[T]he tribal conscience ought for the sake of social welfare to be stronger than private interest...”

“[T]he only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.”

“I guess I don`t think of film as an innovative medium. I guess I feel that film kind of caught up to what`s been happening to women for the last 20 years.”

“For what is worth in anything
But so much money as 't will bring?”

“From an Islamic point of view, women are as responsible as men to help people finding their way to God (S. W. T), and to guide society in the right path with all the power they have.”

“One of his charges is that I am accusing the Neoconservatives in the Pentagon of "dual loyalties." That is true, but not in the way Lake imagines. I believe that Doug Feith, for instance, has dual loyalties to the Israeli Likud Party and to the U. S. Republican Party. He thinks that their interests are completely congruent. And I also think that if he has to choose, he will put the interests of the Likud above the interests of the Republican Party.”