"There is no other reality than nature."

“Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.”

“What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1997). “The Bedquilt and Other Stories”, p.29, University of Missouri Press

“A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife.”

“I want to carry Manuel Neuer to my home.”

“I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.”

“There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!”

“I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.”

“Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.”