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“We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”
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“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
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“That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back and forth across you, up and down, round and round you until each little fibre is worn tissue-thin with aching. And when you are lying beaten, and buffeted, battered and broken - pain goes out, joins hands with Death and comes back to dance, dance, dance, stamp, stamp, stamp down on you until you give up.”
Source : Marita Bonner (1987). “Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner”, Beacon Press (MA)
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“If you don't have passion, you have no energy, and if you don't have energy, you have nothing.”
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“The desire the law makers have in having only dispensary owners to control ***** is part of the game our law makers play to create a bureau of specific business created that owes its allegiance to the political process and therefore will make sure that process continues.”
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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
Source : Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.41
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“In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.”
Source : "Kiran Desai on the Costs Of Literary Celebrity". Interview with Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. April 21, 2007. 
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“Fate pulls you in different directions”
