"After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended."

“In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.”

“If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.”

“I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

“Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.”

Source : Jacquelyn Mitchard (2013). “What We Saw at Night”, p.106, Soho Press

“One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.88, Macmillan

“When you tell me to be good, it makes me want to be good,' I say, hearing the undisguised desire in my voice. I run my fingers through the hair at her temples, taking her face between my palms, and she doesn't move. 'It also makes me want to be very, very bad.”

“No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.”

“Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.”