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“I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.”
Source : "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004. 
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“. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.”
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“I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.”
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“There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well spent. And there are writers-sometimes the same ones, sometimes not-to whom you are powerfully attracted, for reasons that may or may not have to do with literary values. They speak to you, or speak for you, sometimes with a voice that could almost be your own. Often there is one writer in particular who awakens you, who is the teacher they say you will meet when you are ready for the lesson.”
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“Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.”
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“I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.”
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“No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.”
Source : "Darwin on the Origin of Species". "Edinburgh Review", 3, pages 487-532, 1860.
