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“Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have been created in succession at such times and in such places as to enable them to multiply and endure for an appointed period, and occupy an appointed space on the globe.”
Source : Sir Charles Lyell (1853). “Principles of geology ; or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology”, p.666
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“[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.”
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“Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.”
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“We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.”
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“You know my feelings: Every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be a pair of socks?”
Source : "In praise of... Tony Soprano" by James Gandolfini, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013. 
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“The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.”
Source : Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.9, NYU Press
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“What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.”
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“I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.”
