"It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you."

“She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.188, Penguin

“America's a very traumatized society.”

“Goyim kill goyim and the Jews are blamed.”

“When I watch medical shows or other shows where characters die, it kind of bums me out.”

Source : "Alan Sepinwall on the 100 best shows in American television - so far". Interview with Alyssa Rosenberg, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2016.

“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.”

“There are no ordinary cats.”

Source : "There hangs a tail ..." by Justine Hankins, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2004.

“I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.”

Source : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

“At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.”