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“I've worked for four presidents, and I've concluded that almost nothing is inevitable. History is to a significant extent the result of the interaction of personalities and ideas. And so I don't believe war between the U.S. and China is in any way inevitable, and it's well within the province of diplomacy and statecraft to avoid it.”
Source : "Trump's No Isolationist. Is That a Good Thing?". Interview With Tobin Harshaw, www.bloomberg.com. January 13, 2018. 
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“I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”
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“When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.”
Source : Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.172, A&C Black
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“The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.”
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“The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.”
Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.186, Cambridge University Press
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“I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring”
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“He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.”
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“I mean these are universal themes. I try not to preach, for sure. I don't enjoy movies that preach - so I don't want to preach myself when I tell stories because I just feel all of these themes are built into us in terms of redemption and mercy and love and compassion and all these things. And the negative sides, as well.”
