"For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling"

“Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.”

“You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.”

“I'm representing the United States. And I'm representing the United States, and my office is representing the United States day after day in front of the court. And I think it's the right thing to do, to carry that out with some dignity and some respect for the process and respect for the institution. And so that led me to just, you know, move the dial a little bit in the direction of calmness.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

“I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.”

Source : Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.”

“I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.”

“I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.”

“Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.”