"I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us."

“I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.”

“Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.”

“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.98, Hachette UK

“The teams in the Bay Area have created a culture of winning, but the Cubs and Metsneed to learn how to win.”

“I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.”

“That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.”

“Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.”

Source : "IBM's Ginni Rometty on leadership". Interview with John Huey, fortune.com. October 2, 2012.

“When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.”

Source : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.189, University of Chicago Press