"I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way, a prude."

“Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.”

“I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.”

“If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.”

Source : FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jan 13, 2011

“But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.”

“But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.”

“The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”

Source : Tess Gerritsen (2008). “The Keepsake: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel”, p.10, Ballantine Books

“The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.”

“Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.”

Source : Jo-Ann Mapson (2010). “Solomon's Oak”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing