"You're not lost in a storm, Marilyn. You are the storm!"

“I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out I didn't give it to you right then.”

“It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.”

“How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.”

Source : "After the flood" by Brian Keenan, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2006.

“I told (Anze) Kopitar 'You aren't touching the puck enough. I don't like your breakout.' I think Kopitar can make magic with the puck”

“Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?”

Source : Sharon Kay Penman (2010). “When Christ and His Saints Slept”, p.31, Macmillan

“Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.”

Source : Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”