"If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity."

“Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.”

“Over my career, I think I've shown can make a big pitch.”

“Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too.”

“A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.”

“What I don't like about teaching is hearing myself say the same thing. I mean, you just want to sort of shoot yourself after a while. But you don't have a million different ways of thinking about what you have been thinking about for many years. And then there's the truism that you're only as good as your students. If they're not into what's going on, it doesn't matter who you are.”

Source : Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

“I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.”

Source : Suzanne Farrell, Toni Bentley (1990). “Holding on to the air: an autobiography”, Summit Press

“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.”

Source : Eavan Boland (2012). “A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet”, p.6, Carcanet

“I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.”