"I respect my boundaries, and I insist that others respect them, too."

“Having the last name Kalitta didn't make me a racer, but it definitely makes me want to be a winner.”

“What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.”

“For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (2017). “Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances”, p.155, Wildside Press LLC

“What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.”

Source : Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

“Work-family conflicts--the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child--would not be forced upon women with suchsanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.”

“The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.”

“If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning.”

“I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.”