"I'm male gigolo. Professionally? I don't think I've ever done anything professionally."

“Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly, beginning in Genesis. And Muslim-majority countries are among the most vulnerable. Our response to this challenge ought to be rooted in a sense of stewardship of Earth. And for me and for many of us here today, that responsibility comes from God.”

Source : "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.

“Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.”

“If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.”

“Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.”

“Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.”

Source : Joan Bauer (2006). “Best Foot Forward”, p.101, Penguin

“When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.”

“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.”

“When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.”