"I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference."

“The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.”

“The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.”

“Live every week like it's shark week.”

“The most obvious – and easiest! – way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while. The truth is, we don’t know how taking a break frees up the mind, but it does: Somehow it freshens our little neurons, or perhaps it prompts the brain to create more cleverness molecules. If you can bear to let a short piece sit a week and a book-length work a month, do so. Longer is fine, too; some authors have abandoned manuscripts for years before unearthing them and realizing, ‘Hey, this isn’t bad,’ and renewing their energy for the project.”

“Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand.”

Source : Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1924). “The Little French Girl”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company

“The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.”

“Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.”

Source : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.53, Penguin

“Today could be the start of something amazing.”