"You probably think I’m at a disadvantage. I promise you, I’m not."

“A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.”

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

“You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?”

“You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.”

“I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.”

“That doesn't mean that the top fifteen institutions in the ranking somehow don't belong there at all. But what is the difference between number two and number eight in any meaningful sense? As an administrator who worked to build a complex university, I find the assumption slightly offensive. We need to be committed to excellence, not to lists.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

“It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 32, 2003.

“Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.”

Source : Hallie Ephron (2005). “Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel”, p.17, Writer's Digest Books