Jeffrey Eugenides

"I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have. ...I think about the reader. I care about the reader. That one person, alone in a room, whose time I'm asking for." Jeffrey Eugenides

Sidney Poitier

"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists in the loved one, perfection." Sidney Poitier

Louis Theroux

"I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident. It's not me. I think what I'm good at is getting to know people, and trying to build a relationship over a few weeks." Louis Theroux