"I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one."

“The scene was set. All that was required was an action, a cold start, instant and brutal as beginnings always are.”

“Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.”

“Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.”

Source : William Beebe (1954). “A Naturalist's Life of New York”

“Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.”

“He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.”

Source : "My MLB All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium Commemorative Interview with Mickey Rivers". Interview with Dave Hollander, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2008.

“I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth -- and I know it.”

“Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How can you make a great - or even an adequate - bouillabaisse if you've never had any? If you don't really understand why people read mysteries - or romances or literary novels or thrillers or whatever - then there's no way in the world you're going to write one that anyone wants to publish. This is the meaning of the well-known expression "Write what you know."”