"The fascination with the music stayed with me for years and I wanted to find out why I liked it so much and to learn the grammar of it, and that's why I tried to write the sheet music down. Writing it down gave me some ideas of other versions of the music and I wrote the first string quartets and piano pieces based on transcriptions."

“I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?”

“I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.”

Source : "Feller Proud to Serve in 'Time of Need'", www.nytimes.com. December 16, 2010.

“Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.”

“The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1863). “The Poet's Journal”, p.122

“Divine Spirit has a way of doing exactly what is right for everyone concerned at the moment.”

“Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.”

“What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.”

Source : Marianne Wiggins (2008). “The Shadow Catcher: A Novel”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

“I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.”