"I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words."

“It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out,”

Source : David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Address at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.1843magazine.com. September 18, 2008.

“Great minds think alike.”

“The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.”

“Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.”

“To see your country being destroyed from afar - it's very hard to only watch and do nothing. My writing is the only way to address my feelings about this disaster and to at least try to find a solution as a writer. I know I have limits. But I have to do my best as a writer.”

“For me, self-care is a lesson I'm still learning. But it begins with space away from the heaviness of life. I now take time to play, laugh, and, every once in awhile, sleep.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”

“There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.”

Source : Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books