"Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time?"

“BIKINIS, ZUCCHINIS, MARTINIS. NO WEENIES”

“You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.”

“I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.”

“Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to convey his vision: comic, tender, wry, compassionate, full of insight and rueful understanding of what it means to carry on, cream pies in the face, pants falling down as the Green Weenie rampages through our foolish, beautiful lives.”

“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”

Source : Edwidge Danticat (2003). “Breath, Eyes, Memory”, p.48, Soho Press

“If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.”

“We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.”

“There is no unemployment in eco-systems”