"A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor."

“One thing about winning a Pulitzer, it means you know what the first three words of your obituary will be: Pulitzer Prize-winner. After winning the Pulitzer, I couldn't help but notice how people suddenly looked at me with a newfound respect, and would say, "He's an expert." On the negative side, I developed a terrible case of writer's block for awhile, because I felt like readers would expect every one of my columns to be prize worthy.”

Source : "Clarence Page: The 'Culture Worrier' interview". Interview with Kam Williams, baystatebanner.com. March 12, 2015.

“There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.”

“There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.”

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

“I got off a plane today at the airbase and I met a whole bunch of military folks there waiting to see me, they all made reference to my son and his military service and expressed their condolences. And although it's still kind of an open wound, it gave me a sense of strength knowing they all meant it.”

“Home is where you hang your architect.”

“By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.”

Source : David Quammen (2012). “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

“In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.”

Source : Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.121, University of Oklahoma Press

“We all have bad days, but one thing is true; no cloud is so dark that the sun can't shine through.”