"The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it."

“Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.”

“I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.”

“It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.”

“Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.”

“Cancer isn't going to slow me down.”

Source : "Ethan Zohn: Standing Up to Cancer, the Second Time Around". Interview with Sharon Tanenbaum, www.everydayhealth.com. November 4, 2011.

“President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.”

“Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials'; they are the expression of the current wisdom of farmers who have played a highly significant role in the building up of the world's genetic resource base... As is already happening in my country, farmers and national genebanks in developing countries can work together to preserve and expand crop genetic diversity on behalf of all humanity.”

“It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2002). “Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960”, Counterpoint Press