"The Champagne they have stored is getting more valuable every year."

“A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.”

Source : Ann Rinaldi (1998). “In My Father's House: And Related Readings”, McDougal Littel

“People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.”

“Luck is a residue of design.”

“When we talk about the Judeo-Christian or the Judeo-Muslim tradition, it's important to remember that we are speaking of a Jewish component of civilization, but not in itself a civilization. What is happening now in Israel is that you have a coming together of Jews from the Christian world and Jews from the Muslim world with different cultures.”

“A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.”

Source : "In the Presence of America: A Conversation with Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

“I enjoyed recording at home. I had the luxury of being able to re-record things.”

“We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis management, .. We wouldn't be in this situation today if Senate Democrats weren't holding up the national energy plan that the president proposed back in May of 2001.”

Source : "White House: Bush 'disappointed' in OPEC" by Dana Bash and Jennifer Yuille, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2004.

“The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.”