"There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing."

“For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.”

“Outside the ring I work hard when I train and I spend as much time as I can with my family when I'm not training.”

Source : Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

“This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you.”

“People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.”

“I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose.”

“For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.”

Source : Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

“I don't sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.”

“I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay”