"You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose."

“I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it seemed as if - perhaps because we are in such a twilight state, a melting down and reconstituting of the self - there was more opportunity to hear strains from what must be the other side, the moral music of the sphere.”

“I was a greasy short-order cook. I just liked being greasy! That was a real departure for me.”

“I don't have television so I don't watch TV.”

Source : "Meet The Vampire Diaries Actor Paul Wesley". www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.

“Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.”

Source : "Q&A: BANKS On Her Burgeoning Success, Debut Album, And Giving Her Phone Number Out To The Entire World". Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.stereogum.com. February 4, 2014.

“Beneath every history, another history.”

Source : Hilary Mantel (2013). “Hilary Mantel Collection: Six of Her Best Novels”, p.78, HarperCollins UK

“It's going to be unbelievable, you know. There's going to be a lot of people cheering for Mark McGwire and me. And, hey, we'll see how it goes.”

“The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations.”

“Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.”

Source : "Fertile minds need feeding". Interview with Jessica Shepherd, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2009.