Mike Rose

“On October 23, 1963, Barefoot in the Park opened on Broadway. Just before his extremely nervous cast took the stage, Nichols gathered them for a final pep talk. “Everybody relax,” Redford says he told them. “You know your positions, you know your laughs, you know your lines, you know where the comfort zones are. So enjoy yourselves, and remember: Everything depends on tonight.”
― Mark Harris, Mike Nichols: A Life

“It’s hard enough to find out about the things the universe prefers to keep hidden without our government, which somebody you know must have voted for, covering up what has already been found. Sometimes, of course, it hides things to save its own neck and sometimes seemingly just for the hell of it.”
― Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire

“We can’t help but look for faces everywhere, and it’s harmlessly exciting to find one in an unexpected place. But in our more sober moments, we realize that this is silly. Even if my breakfast looks exactly like the Virgin Mary, it’s just an immaculate deception. I’ll show myself out.”
― Ian Olasov, Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important—and Most Unexpected—Questions

“If we ever reach a point where bad behavior becomes nothing but an engineering problem, we’d lose our free will. Would that be so bad?”
― Ian Olasov, Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important—and Most Unexpected—Questions