"Changes occur because there’s a gap between what is and what should be."

“I've never been a social bunny. I thrive on work.”

Source : Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. October 26, 2009.

“All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens”

“I have no plans to trade Paul Pierce.”

“The pain goes away, but your work always remains.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.”

“Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.”

“Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.”

“But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy. The air between our resting bodies, and the breath in our conversations, were all like the white of the canvas, and the rest our relationship- the laughter and the memories- were the brushstroke applied over time.”

Source : Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.236, Penguin