"Most countries want to bring their people together and tear down physical, commercial and cultural barriers. Anyone who proposes separating them is out of line."

“It's easy to pretend 'to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit mistakes and they work to correct them. We stand up and we use our voices for things other than self promotion. We don't stand by and let racism and sexism and homophobia run rapid on our watch. Real fearless and fierce women complement other women and we recognize and embrace that their shine in no way diminishes our light and that it actually makes our light shine brighter.”

“It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.”

“Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.”

“There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.”

“I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States is so influential. If the trends of the last thirty or forty years are not halted and reversed - and those trends include increasingly inequality, a crumbling public life, a disintegrating public infrastructure, an exhausted ecology, and a huge war arsenal, and more and more war making - then I'm rather gloomy about the prospects for the American future and the harm that the United States could do to the world.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.”

Source : Joseph Roth (2012). “Joseph Roth”, p.39, Granta Books

“What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great literature.”

“Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.”

Source : "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.