"People will say to me, "Well, nobody really believes this stuff." But as a reporter I go out and talk to people who do believe it. And they can talk about it for hours."

“Life... by Marshall Mathers... What is life ? Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down... And everytime you think you gotten past it It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground”

“There is only one way a boy can be sure to learn to play hockey - on the pond, on the creek, on a flooded lot. The foundation of hockey isn't really hockey at all. It's shinny, a wild melee of kids batting a puck around, with no rules, no organization - nothing but individual effort to grab and hold the puck.”

“Just because I didn't do what you told me, doesn't mean I wasn't listening to you!”

“Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.”

“This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.”

“Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.”

“Even after many years, kata practice is never finished, for there is always something new to be learned about executing a movement.”

Source : Shoshin Nagamine (2011). “Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do”, p.26, Tuttle Publishing

“With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.”

Source : "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.