"I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books."

-- Bill Vaughan

“Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.”
“Because I donâ€™t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now Iâ€™m on this rock, now Iâ€™m on this rock, now Iâ€™m on this rock.”
“The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.”
“Don't be stupid. You're a child. You don't know what it means to be in love." And she flung open the car door as if she wished she had the strength to rip it from the hinges, and stalked off to the house through the rain. That night, I lay in bed, troubled by what she'd said, blocking out the sounds of argument from my parents' room. Was love what my parents had? Yelling at eachother, worrying about money? Never smiling? Never happy? If that was love, then I didn't want it.”

Source : Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”

Source : Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.120, Library of Alexandria
“Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'”

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