"The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared."

“I usually go to Lush for hair products. I had no idea that this existed, but they have a shampoo rock, and it looks like a bar of soap, and I was tripping out when they told me it was a shampoo, so that's pretty sweet.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.”

“When a political organization loses contact with its origin, it declines and risks implosion.”

“I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.”

Source : "Wyoming's Senator Wallop Won't Run in '94", www.nytimes.com. 1993.

“My life is a reading list.”

“To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.”

“A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.”

Source : "The Brilliant Complications Of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

“I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that.”