"Uninvited criticism is insult."

“There's virtually nothing to stop the cold air from off of Hudson Bay from flowing down across the midlands. So you get good contrast: the warm air coming up -- the cold air coming down -- and where they meet is your typical frontal location.”

“The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.”

“A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.”

“The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.”

Source : "To hell with Perry Mason". The Observer Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

“It ain't whatcha say, it's the way howcha say it.”

“It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom.”

Source : "Marjorie Scardino: business leaders will back EU in the end" by Jason Deans, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2013.

“A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.”

Source : J. D. McClatchy (2013). “Twenty Questions”, p.30, Columbia University Press

“The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a sense of the revelatory detail. I look for them.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com