"I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!"

“First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals on its payroll are able to obtain both power and wealth through granting special favors to certain politically influential groups that are subject to its regulation. This activity is similar to the 'protection racket' of organized crime: for a price, one can induce FDA administrators to provide 'protection' from the FDA itself.”

“I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.”

Source : "The Legend Of Bob Metcalfe" by Scott Kirsner, www.wired.com. November 01, 1998.

“What do I have to do to convince you that I'm only using Dabria for one reason, one only reason: Destroy Hank, bit by bit if is necessary,and make him pay for all the things he has done to harm the girl i love?”

“I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.”

“Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.”

“To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives the gift of His love which forgives, reconciles and reopens the soul to hope.”

“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2012.

“Meditation is not about doing something”