"If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply."

-- Maureen Dowd

“In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.”

Source : Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.
“Where does a werewolf sleep? Anywhere he wants to.”
“The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it according to his inner self. The words go to the ear, but the true message travels straight to the spirit.”

Source : Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.364, Macmillan
“A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.”
“It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.”
“Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.”
“If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.”
“you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.”

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