"In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun's rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you everyday I wake up and it is going to do that forever."

“This wasn’t the first time I’d been pulled out of bed for a crucial mission. It was, however, the first time I’d been subjected to such a personal line of questioning. “Are you a virgin?”

“She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself. When I was in the middle of 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy - which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist - you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed.”

“My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 18, 2002.

“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.”

“It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.”

“Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.”

“Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been”

Source : "We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea".

“No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.”