"While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about."

“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”

“We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a ***** thing about doing a show.”

“I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.”

“[On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly.”

“I could never love where I could not respect.”

“...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.”

Source : Richard Peck (2010). “A Season of Gifts”, p.25, Penguin

“I miss. I miss. I miss. I make.”

Source : "The escape artist" by Rick Reilly, www.espn.com. May 7, 2011.

“I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.”

Source : "Dorothy Hamill: Life wasn't 'cake' after gold" by Mike Celzic, www.today.com. October 03, 2007.