"I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95."

“I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.”

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

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

Source : John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

“It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.”

“The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.”

“When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.”

Source : Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.118, Heinemann

“The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,”

Source : Janet Malcolm (2013). “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes”, p.183, Vintage

“I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction”

“You are my heart as it beats within my chest, my soul as it moves through my mind. The breath in my body that so fascinates you is your essence pouring in and out of me in a wave that drowns me over and over again until I cannot breathe for wanting you. Needing you.”