"Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams."

“Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.”

“Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy you to give them an education.”

“I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.”

Source : "The Heat-Seeking Panther" by Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. July 22, 2010.

“My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.”

“Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.”

“I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.”

“We are minor in everything but our passions.”

Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

“Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.”

Source : Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”