"Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people."

“I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.”

“How could I resist? Look, I love that record and have nothing but great, great memories of my time with BLACK SABBATH . Tony was really busy but got his solos to me at the last minute as he promised and they are just fantastic. I think BLACK SABBATH fans will be over the moon when they hear what he's done. As for Roger and Ian , well, they just sound great on this song so it really did become 'Black Purple'. Personally, I love the irony of it all.”

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

“Gaming is the backbone of Nevadas economy.”

“The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.”

“Animals run no risk of going to hell. They are already there.”

“It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.”

“I can do things at 45, not because I can do a bunch of pull-ups, it's because I do Yoga!”

“Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.”

Source : Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.70, Macmillan