"We have to immediately stop using the oceans as a dumping ground for our urban and industrial waste."

“Any time a secret group usurps the collective will of the people, it’s wrong. Period.”

“The record industry is a world within itself.”

“We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.”

“The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.”

“Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence...”

“It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.”

Source : Ann Beattie (2011). “Picturing Will”, p.237, Vintage

“Children notice things first, people later.”

“I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.”