"Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book."

-- Joseph O'Neill

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“I saw this vision with a beautiful plastic bag in Kensington High Street, ... and then you didn't see the face because he had this blond thing [indicating a sweeping fringe across his face] that was, you know, too much!”
“One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.”

Source : "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.
“I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.”
“A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.”
“But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected.”
“I give the moment permanence.”
“Heart and mind overcome all.”
“I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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