"We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is."

“... people get confidential at midnight.”

Source : Maxine Kumin (1974). “The designated heir”, Viking Adult

“It's a very easy thing to say, 'Go get a backup quarterback.' Now tell me where to get them. You just can't dial them up.”

“With each game I play, with each season I play, I'm running out of chances... you're never guaranteed next year. You're never guaranteed the next game. You have to seize the opportunity when it's there in front of you.”

Source : "Favre Knows That Time Is Quickly Running Out". Interview with Judy Battista, www.nytimes.com. January 29, 2004.

“To understand a man is really to be that man.”

“Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org

“Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.”

“I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a healing function.”

“Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her teeth were bared like a beast of prey. Her eyes were glittering, black as coal. She moved with the lightning speed of a tarantula and seemed totally focus on her prey as she swung the club again, striking Martin in the ribs.”