"Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages."

“Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith”

“As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.”

Source : "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.

“Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from.”

Source : Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”

Source : "A Precocious Autobiography". Translated from the Russian by Andrew R. MacAndrew,

“The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

“My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.”

“Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.”