"if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will."

“The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.”

Source : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Persistence of Memory”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

“Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.”

“I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'”

“My goal is to create a sustainable long-term business that, we're committed to print, we're rooted in print, but we're expanding into digital and into modernizing the way we sell to customers through e-commerce and things like that. And it requires different skill sets; it requires different ways of doing business.”

Source : Source: www.mcall.com

“Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.”

“Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.”

“With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.”

“I would wait in line for anything to do with Doctor Who.”

Source : "Comic-Con 2011: 'Dexter's' Manny Coto on Harlan Ellison, Tights and Cloning William Shatner". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 19, 2011.