"I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists"

“Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.”

Source : Anne Campbell (1993). “Men, women, and aggression”, Basic Books

“I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.”

“On April 2, the nurses started my first round of five intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) infusions. The clear IV bags hung on a metal pole above my head, their liquid trickling down into my vein. Each of those ordinary-looking bags contained the healthy antibodies of over a thousand blood donors and cost upwards of $20,000 per infusion. One thousand tourniquets, one thousand nurses, one thousand veins, one thousand blood-sugar regulating cookies, all just to help one patient.”

Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

“Ive never really been a big sci-fi guy or a big comic book guy.”

“So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.”

Source : "Interview with Edward Luck, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. August 1, 2011.

“A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.”

“These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.”

Source : Mark Bowden (2011). “Worm: The First Digital World War”, p.186, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.