"The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears."

“You must remember how to dream what you already know.”

“Today is not forever.”

Source : Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin: A Novel”, p.349, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”

“Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.”

“Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill.”

Source : "The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change".

“Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.”

“My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.”

“I don't have much use for the concept of innateness. The everyday concept incorporates a number of different notions that can come apart in in many ways, and as a result encourages a range of dangerously fallacious inferences.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.