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- All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler
- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. — David Herbert Lawrence
- Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. — Carter Burwell
- Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste. — Carter Burwell
- I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it. — Carter Burwell