"I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but that is it. However I am much happier travelling and being busy competing in both my sports than having time off."

“Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.”

“Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.”

“I think there are only two things you should really expect Congress to do.One is to pass a short-term funding bill, because it's not in their political interest to shut down the government when the fiscal year comes into effect, the new fiscal year, on October 1. The second thing, I think, is Zika funding. This has been put off and off for months and months.”

“Listen closely to your invisible thoughts. What do you hear? What are your words implying? That is their potency. What do you want? Name it and rearrange the structure of your mind to imply you no longer desire it, because you already have it!”

“I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

“Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.”

“A little blue-eyed blonde in a red hot sweater, wants to spice my chili, I think I'll let her.”

“Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.”