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“Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness†of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.”
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“Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.”
Source : Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”
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“You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.”
Source : "Carson Daly: 'I'm Living Proof That the Good Guys Win'". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. April 19, 2012. 
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“Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
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“Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you see the thoughts, you can make a conscious choice to act on the thought or change your mind, instead of going along with the noise. I have seen people who don't want to look at themselves keep going until something happens that makes them stop — a sickness or an accident — but it gives them that reflective, quiet space where they can face what is difficult in their mind. We each have a unique purpose to fulfill in this life and inklings can come in those quiet moments.”
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“Shepard’s Field is a good place for orphans. My class had a fundraiser for them and when we had a field trip to their orphanage, we met a lot of kids. What surprised me was they even had a computer room with lots of computers! After this amazing trip, I felt happy helping them. Maybe we could do another fundraiser again? I hope so!”
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“There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.”
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“For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.”
Source : "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.
