"for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive."

“If you have fun when you practice, you may also learn more and perform better”

“I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.”

“The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.”

“I think fear... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear.”

“Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.”

Source : Andrew Vachss (2001). “False Allegations”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

“You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there.”

“My dad abandoned me when I was about two years old. So, he wasn't around to protect me the way I needed to be protected. I started getting sexually abused from the time I was about five years old to the time I was ten. It really messed with my sense of self worth and my sense of all that was good with the world, almost.”

Source : "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

“There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.”