"American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other."

“Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.”

Source : "The Show". Short video program, www.zefrank.com/theshow/, May 4, 2006.

“I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.”

Source : "CNN Live Today" with Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. October 1, 2003.

“Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.”

Source : Annie Ernaux (2011). “Happening”, p.92, Seven Stories Press

“An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.”

“I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize.”

“When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.”

“If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.”

“Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness.”