“I'm impressed that they've been able to take a 2D character with a 1D personality and bloat it into a 3D disaster.”

Marie Windsor: Her Face Is Familiar https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5496065/lubbock_avalanchejournal/ (April 11, 1973)

Quoted in Sam Frank, "Come With Us If You Want to Live: Among the apocalyptic libertarians of Silicon Valley" https://harpers.org/archive/2015/01/come-with-us-if-you-want-to-live/5/, January 2015
Context: "Imagine there is a set of skills," [Michael Vassar] said. "There is a myth that they are possessed by the whole population, and there is a cynical myth that they're possessed by 10 percent of the population. They've actually been wiped out in all but about one person in three thousand." It is important, Vassar said, that his people, "the fragments of the world," lead the way during "the fairly predictable, fairly total cultural transition that will predictably take place between 2020 and 2035 or so." We pulled up outside the Rose Garden Inn. He continued: "You have these weird phenomena like Occupy where people are protesting with no goals, no theory of how the world is, around which they can structure a protest. Basically this incredibly, weirdly, thoroughly disempowered group of people will have to inherit the power of the world anyway, because sooner or later everyone older is going to be too old and too technologically obsolete and too bankrupt. The old institutions may largely break down or they may be handed over, but either way they can't just freeze. These people are going to be in charge, and it would be helpful if they, as they come into their own, crystallize an identity that contains certain cultural strengths like argument and reason."

Source: Catch-22

How to Succeed at Vampire Slaying and Keep Your Soul (2005)

Source: INTERVIEW: George Winston https://ventsmagazine.com/2019/05/01/interview-george-winston/ (1 May 2019)

GQ Interview (2005)
Context: I'm fundamentally quite shy, so that thing of taking on another character is quite a liberating thing to do if you're a shy person, because within that character framework you can now go to all these other places. [pauses] And I never found another job that I was actually that good at.

Fauna Suecica (1746) as quoted by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species (1999)
Context: As a natural historian according to the principles of science, up to the present time I have been not been able to discover any character by which man can be distinguished from the ape; for there are somewhere apes which are less hairy than man, erect in position, going just like him on two feet, and recalling the human species by the use they make of their hands and feet, to such an extent, that the less educated travellers have given them out as a kind of man.