"I have friends, and being with them is enough for me. I don't need to do something crazy."

“Desire is a word I'm tired of. I've been living with that word for years. Yes, of course, we're all desiring machines. I have sometimes wondered what people would want, if there were no advertising. And death, what other subject is there? It's the subject. It's our subject. It's the great human dilemma, that we die and know we will.”

Source : Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

“What we value determines what we do.”

“A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.”

“John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.”

“You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.”

Source : Leslie Marmon Silko, Melody Graulich (1993). “Yellow Woman”, p.3, Rutgers University Press

“Nothing's riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys f-k up again, I'm gonna get mad.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ben Bradlee". "All the President's Men", 1976.

“The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you cracking to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other's hands.”

“While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.”