"No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her."

“Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.”

“The older I get, the less I negotiate. When you first start out, it's 90 percent negotiation and 10 percent suggestion. When you get to a certain point, those figures reverse.”

“Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear”

“I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?”

“If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.”

Source : "Author Shaara's Pilgrimage To Civil War Sites". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. April 24, 2011.

“You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon.”

“Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.”

Source : Peter Porter (1970). “The last of England”, Not Avail

“The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles, faces and ridges, Is it the name itself which is so tempting, or the picture we have of the mountain itself, or does the appeal come from our feeling of the actual process of climbing? All of us have our reasons, innumerable, personal and complex. From many points of view a climb is a challenge we must meet.”