"America will never move forward if you decide to leave a nation of people behind."

“You don't have to have one emotion at a time.”

Source : Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.77, Vintage

“But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.”

Source : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

“Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.”

“For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.”

“If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.”

“I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.”

Source : "James Salter, The Art of Fiction No. 133". Interview with Edward Hirsch, www.theparisreview.org. 1993.

“In North America someone who doesn't know anybody, he can go... you can be respected for your own identity. It pushes your personality to become stronger.”

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”