"Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult."

“What's the use of saying we're better at baseball than this country? We all play together. I'm playing with Venezuelans and Dominicans right now. We all play together, so what's up with saying our country is better than your country? It's stupid. I don't like it.”

“I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours.”

“I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.”

“You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.”

Source : "Ronan Farrow: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2013.

“My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.”

“I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.”

“In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.”