"As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings."

“There's always more money to be made.”

“My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.”

“Easter is never deserved.”

Source : Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.285, Penguin

“Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.”

“I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.”

Source : Quoted by Vincent van Gogh in a letter to brother Theo on July 1885. "The letters of Vincent van Gogh". Book edited by Ronal de Leeuw, p. 302, 1996.

“No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.”

“I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.”

Source : "When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

“The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.”