"Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin."

“You can’t act Shakespeare until you can speak him.”

“What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].”

“I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.”

Source : Interview with Elizabeth Gips, www.tripzine.com. May 1, 2001.

“I used to tell myself when I was much younger that I didn't want to wake up one day and be 32 years old and still playing records. It's just not going to happen. Well, the joke is on me, because I'm 56 years old now.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

“Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.”

“No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.”

“The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.”

Source : Katherine Center (2009). “Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel”, p.226, Ballantine Books

“It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (1870). “Man and Wife: A Novel”, p.150