We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
- David MametWhen I entered the monastery I wanted to be alone. Now I believe that men should worry about the world they leave for their children.
- Franco NeroI AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
- Allan TreimanFounding a monastery is a continuous process of sawing to build your design and trying to dispose of the sawdust, while you`re always being forced to reconstruct. You have to give it your all and it`s never done,
- Ann Grahn