"When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it."

“Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.”

“There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.”

“Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue - not the same violence we deal with in Boston, where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity.”

Source : "Silence is Death". Interview with Eva Thorne, bostonreview.net. April/May 1999.

“Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.”

“I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.”

“Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.”

Source : "I'm mistaken for a man every day" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2008.

“Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.”

“And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl”

Source : "Gossip Girl". www.imdb.com. 2007-2012.