"Sure, at that age [of 7] you may have seen movies with guns and crime but by then I also knew something strange was happening in my family because it all changed drastically after the killing of Rodrigo Lara."

“Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.”

“If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?”

Source : "Climate Choice" by Evangeline Lilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

“I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.”

“Dont forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.”

“You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.”

“Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.”

“It's just the world seems a very spacious place without him.”

Source : Freya North (2012). “Cat”, p.81, HarperCollins UK

“Peacefully The quiet stars came out, one after one; The holy twilight fell upon the sea, The summer day was done.”

Source : Celia Thaxter (1872). “Poems”, p.51