"I had to introduce a lot of people into my writing environment which I thought at first I would find really difficult, but I actually found that I loved it. It meant that I was meeting different people; it meant that I was expressing myself in different ways."

“The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.”

Source : Jonathan Kellerman (2003). “Devil's Waltz: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.262, Ballantine Books

“Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.”

Source : "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.

“It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. October 16, 2014.

“Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their appetite and create excitement, rather than make them upset.”

“I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.”

“Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.”

“When I was on tour, people would say "We don't need a value-based currency, we can go out and buy gold and silver with US dollars now." I mean that it is so utterly brain dead, because they miss the whole point: the reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things.”

Source : Source: www.wherestherage.com

“One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.”

Source : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.20, Cambridge University Press