"And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness"

“When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.”

“If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.”

“The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'”

Source : "The Many Ages Of Adele". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2011.

“If you want to see a black hole tonight, tonight just look in the direction of Sagittarius, the constellation. That's the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and there's a raging black hole at the very center of that constellation that holds the galaxy together.”

“Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?”

“It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.”

“As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for everything. I would not be given a second chance. In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief.”

“At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.”

Source : George Plimpton (2016). “Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback”, p.235, Random House