"I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception."

“Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.”

Source : Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: The First Five Novels”, p.224, Penguin

“I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things...”

“Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.”

Source : "Ariel Rechtshaid: the producer behind Vampire Weekend, Haim and Sky Ferreira" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2013.

“Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.”

“There's a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot.”

“The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.”

“No two snowflakes are alike...”

“I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.