"If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it."

“If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not”

“The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.”

“Don't judge people you don't know. You have no idea what they've been through, and you may waste an opportunity to make a new friend.”

“I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.”

“There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands of products that we're not eating right now that maybe will be cultivated in a good agriculture situation, a sustainable, ecological way. Maybe there will be textures or flavors we hadn't even thought of. In the Amazon there are 400 fruits that are not cultivated right now. They're just incredible fruits. Textures, tastes that we don't know right now.”

“We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.”

“I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have.”

“Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined that a reader can jump right in. Betsy Cornwell is a terrific new talent with a boundless imagination.”