"I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain."

“We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.”

“Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs”, p.243, Random House

“In 500 years, English has changed a lot, and right now we're undergoing an extremely rapid rate of accelerated advancement in terms of technology, but I still have a hard time believing that we're going to stop speaking to each other. The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either. It's going to continue to create a cultural affect where people will be able to understand something beyond function that may otherwise be foreign to them.”

“I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.”

“I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.”

“The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.”

“Every moment of life mattered. Even the perfect snowflake that alighted on his palm and melted in seconds.”

Source : Kristen Britain (2011). “The High King's Tomb”, p.429, Hachette UK

“Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.”

Source : Roger Angell (2007). “Let Me Finish”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt