"A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win."

“Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.”

“The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.”

Source : Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone

“A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting to read. It's robust and direct-the opposite of gaudy, pretentious language. You achieve plain English when you use the simplest, most straightforward way of expressing an idea. You can still choose interesting words. But you'll avoid fancy ones that have everyday replacements meaning precisely the same thing.”

Source : Bryan A. Garner (2013). “Legal Writing in Plain English, Second Edition: A Text with Exercises”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

“Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they're being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube - guys skulking in their T-shirts and cargo shorts, girls in low-slung jeans and flip-flops, pimples and breasts and tattoos and lipstick and legs and bra straps, and cigarettes; a colorful, sexy melange. I feel old and tired and I just want to be them again, want to be young and stupid, filled with angst and attitude and unbridled lust. Can I have a do-over, please? I swear to God I'll make a real go of it this time.”

“One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.”

“I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone”

“You're not meant to do what's easy, you're meant to challenge yourself.”

“Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.”