"[Dmitry Bilozerchev] is a genius of gymnastics."

“I just think I just noticed that when I was working on other people's music I found myself missing a bit of the total control I had doing my own.”

“The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages + CD-ROM, published February 1997. I was personally acquainted with more movie stars than people who might conceivably have wanted to buy this book or any book like it.”

“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”

“Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.”

“In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.”

“It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.641, Random House Books for Young Readers

“Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.”

“Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.”